Donna Tan from the Philippines explains how she has used the course ‘Become a Transformed Woman’ by Darlene Wilkinson to meet a need for women today. Donna has started a pastors’ wives’ Facebook group and is excited by the fact that it now has 350 members. After asking the group: “Who wants to ‘Become a Transformed Woman’?”Donna eventually did several on-line sessions with the group.“Based on their reflections, I think it was very helpful for them. In Session Two there was a checklist about examples of weights that women often carry: Are you overworked? Do you have elderly parents to take care of? A lot of the things that were on the list we would not label as weights because we are expected to do them.
As they watched the video, they came to understand what weights are: how we’re taking care of children, seasons in life, marital challenges, and normal everyday things that weigh us down. These are things that you drag with you as you run your race.”
Donna encouraged the women to add their personal weights to the list and this became a safe place for the ladies to be able to express themselves. Donna explained: “It’s not from a place of hurt; it’s just heavy. Just understanding the need to just
lay it out before the Lord, just lay it out for God. This was so very important for everyone to hear.” Donna also started to realize that “you run your own race; you don’t run the race for other people.” She found it an eye opener because it made her see that, at times, she was running
the race for her children by carrying their weights. “So we ended the course by focusing on Jesus; we needed prayer at the feet of Jesus.
Those are wonderful, practical things. We were studying the Bible and it’s so relatable to a woman’s life.
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