Our leaders have taken a couple of months off to rest and to prepare as we begin putting together our next Passionate Heart Groups. We are fortunate enough to have two groups again this next year. I have had the privilege to meet with the leaders from both groups and am really excited that each one of them has decided to serve in this ministry. They are beautiful women who have been working diligently on their own recovery and they have a passion to see others find freedom and healing from the pain that they have experienced at the hand of perpetrators. They truly are humble women who understand that only God can heal wounded hearts and that He alone has the wisdom that we will need to lead these groups. We have begun to pray for each of the women who have signed up and we are anticipating getting to meet them in person and watch what God will do during our time together. We continue to pray right up to the start up date that God will call the women He wants in each of our groups and that they will have the courage to be obedient to contact us. We know it is never an accident that a woman shows up in one of our groups. If you, by chance, are reading this and wondering if this group is for you, I encourage you to read the other posts and to pray and ask God His plans for you include participating in one of our groups. So often, we try to simply do the Christian thing and forgive those who wounded us so deeply without even realizing how our abuse has impacted our lives. Our groups will give you a safe place to talk about your past, help you look at how it has impacted you, and then help you to move towards a deeper level of forgiveness and living the passionate life that God has called you to live. A part of God’s grace is His healing and restorative work in our lives…the desire to be in one of our groups could be Him starting that work in your life.