This book is killing me, and it's killing me in a lot of really wonderful ways.

It's crucifying some things in me that need crucifying.

It's clarifying to me some things that somewhere along the way may have started getting fuzzy to me.

It's reminding me that it is the right thing and my right in Christ to fight for the freedom

that I have been given in the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is right and appropriate to do so.

I am so full of joy to be with you and to start this particular journey.

I've got to tell you something that is unique to my experience in teaching the scriptures and doing curriculum. I did not mean to write a Bible study on Galatians.

It was no part of my plan. What I was going to do next as of a couple of years ago after I completed the quest was the book of

Ephesians. I just was certain that's the way we were headed and I love it so much and I began

putting it to memory and memorized all six chapters of it. Loved it so much that I still to this day said it this morning

from memory and can hardly say it without crying.

That's how powerful it is.

It's one way I discipline my mind and it's just become such a love to me to be able to just

have the words on the page page take up residency in the marrow

of my bones. It's just made all the difference to me. To a young woman who was in a ton of bondage

and so much of our bondage, of course, is in the battlefield of our own thinking. And so this was the

way that God began to set me free. So I love it.

It's a constant ongoing practice of mind. But I just thought to myself, well, what am I going to do next?

And, you know, I didn't feel any huge leadership of the spirit. I didn't feel like anything was

just drawing me right that second. What felt like randomly in my own heart, I went, well,

you know, I've been on kind of a role with some of Paul's letters. I think maybe I'll do

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