Dear Pastor's Wife

Dear Pastor’s Wife: Finding Sweetness In the Storm

Dear Pastor’s Wife, I know that many of you share my love of nature- I’m continually in awe of God’s creation, and even more so now that we live on a beautiful farm. The other night my husband and I were unwinding from the day by sitting on our front porch swing, watching a thunderstorm… Read More Dear Pastor’s Wife: Finding Sweetness In the Storm

Dear Pastor's Wife

Ministry Matters: Be Gentle With Your Weeds

  This article comes to you from my vegetable garden. Though very large, it’s  my “bit of earth” and one of my favorite places to be in spring and early summer. I think a garden is such a mysteriously peaceful place, don’t you? It appears stationary and frozen in time. Yet in all of it’s… Read More Ministry Matters: Be Gentle With Your Weeds

Dear Pastor's Wife

Dear Pastor’s Wife: She Struggled To Grow…But She Did Grow

Dear Pastor’s Wife, Last week a  friend shared something on Facebook that really grabbed me. It’s been tumbling in my heart ever since, and I’ve needed to write you another letter to share what I hope will spring hope into your heart. Here’s what she wrote: “6 1/2 years ago, only a couple of days… Read More Dear Pastor’s Wife: She Struggled To Grow…But She Did Grow

Ministry Matters

Ministry Matters: If You Want To Be A Perennial Pastor’s Wife

It’s that time of year again in our part of the world. The earth is readying itself for new growth. Soil is softening under warm spring rains. Trees are loosening up the tiny buds that they’ve kept tightly closed for the winter.  Beetles, lizards, and snakes are waking up- and so is a certain kind… Read More Ministry Matters: If You Want To Be A Perennial Pastor’s Wife

Family, Parenting/Family, Practical Tips

The Question Every Parent Should Be Asking Their Kids

From the time they can speak, we ask them the same question. Over and over, relatives ask. Friends ask, Sunday school teachers ask, random strangers ask. And our children quite cutely respond with whatever strikes their fancy at the moment. It’s fun to hear the answers, to dream with our children. To wonder what’s going… Read More The Question Every Parent Should Be Asking Their Kids