Today I’m sharing my heart with those of you, my dear readers, who are fellow pastors’ wives. If you’ve walked alongside your pastor-husband for any length of time, you have known criticism. Since this post went viral, I have received scores of emails from pastors’ wives from all over the world. And the messages of… Read More Issues Pastors’ Wives Face: Dealing With Criticism in Ministry {Part One}
About a week ago, while talking with a lady at church, she mentioned something to the effect of “I don’t think God ever intended for us to be this busy in life.” I had just told my husband that very thing a few days earlier. And truly, although it seems like a nice thought, how… Read More What Happens When You Slow Down
Even before birth, we touch them. When they kick, we poke back at them, hoping to encourage more movement. At the moment of birth, the tiny body is placed on Mom. Skin to skin is best, the nurses sing out. And with the touch comes bonding. Somewhere in between birth and 2 years of age,… Read More Bless Them With Touch {My Discoveries From Jesus’ Model of Praying for Children}
This past Friday I had the rare opportunity to spend the day with 3 other pastors’/missionary wives. A few weeks ago we were all together at a board meeting dinner, and we decided we needed a day of thrift store shopping. “Let’s make this happen,” we said. Amazingly, we found a day that worked for… Read More Some Things I’m Trying Not To Think About…
I was sitting in church listening to the Mother’s Day service that Sunday in 2006. I say ‘listening’ because I didn’t feel like part of the service. All of the festivities were swirling around me, making no sense. The tiny life of our first baby was within me, now and again fluttering to make its… Read More Even Moms Struggle On Mother’s Day
