For the past few years my church has run a morning for women called Ten Things I've Learned About Life. What this morning involves is simply hearing the stories of two women from with the congregation(s) and some of the things they've learnt about life and God along the way. I've been at the last two, one of which was on the Saturday just gone, and they are really good times of encouragement, and getting to know more about some of the women you see around you (and I made the same mistake again this year and went without tissues). We get a little book-mark-style handout of the distilled points from each woman, and I still have last year's up on my board, so I've scanned them in here (which hopefully isn't going to violate anyone's privacy), because they say something without you needing to know the stories behind them.