Beginners Idol? By Kathleen McAnear Smith
Let’s Meet Up! Beginner’s Idol? Exodus 20: 3...no other gods. There she was, a young woman standing on a stage streamed in from Chicago to those of us gathered somewhere in Portsmouth. As I’m a Pond Person who loves UK & USA connections, and Liz Bohannon is one of Forbes Top 20 Global Speakers* I thought I might listen very carefully. “Some of us are stuck in our overwhelming dream,” she said. I pictured my garage stacked with unsold books. Liz admitted she had a PASSION, an overwhelming dream of helping women in poverty in Africa. Stirred by her faith in Jesus and a degree in journalism she had been sure that within a year of graduating from college she would be changing the world. “ But after a few years of nothing happening,” Liz moaned, “ I was more than just a little disappointed. Why wasn’t God doing something?” She cried out, “what needs to change?” Liz laughed at herself, “ I finally realised that for all I wanted to h...