Rest. Reflection. Renewal. This past summer our family was blessed with the gift of a sabbatical. (more…)
View More The Gift of Sabbatical {Part 1}Flowers for MY Pastor’s Wife
Flowers. They have to be one of God’s special gifts.
View More Flowers for MY Pastor’s WifeTransparency {Part 2}
It was a day that started out as any other weekday. The kids had eaten breakfast, done chores, and were sitting at the table working…
View More Transparency {Part 2}Steadfast Love
We are, most of us, well acquainted with Ecclesiastes’ carousel of seasons whirling in life – times to mourn, dance, weep, laugh. While we wish to hide tears and seek laughter instead, there is no hide-and-seek to play. The seasons – they just come.
My heart turns often with the grief of others, and mine, to this prayer:
View More Steadfast LoveTransparency {Part 1}
Within the small-town church culture, transparency is both very simple and very hard. You live life closely with your people, often seeing them several times…
View More Transparency {Part 1}How to Have an Effective Quiet Time
Having an effective quiet time on a daily basis is, by far, one of the most important things you can do to grow your walk…
View More How to Have an Effective Quiet TimeCultivating a Spiritual Life: Seeking the Lord
I imagine some of you expected something a little bit more “how-to” in the last blog. I have struggled over the years with so much…
View More Cultivating a Spiritual Life: Seeking the LordCultivating a Spiritual Life: Seasons
Life as a rural and small-town pastor’s wife affords many opportunities to see God’s truths displayed in the seasons. Life has seasons, too, and so often our spiritual life has been described by referring to the different seasons of growth we go through as we are conformed to the image of the Son who saved us. So how do we cultivate our spiritual life no matter what season we are in?
View More Cultivating a Spiritual Life: SeasonsTime Management Foundations {Part 2}
A full planner and a busy, ministry schedule are not true measures of your spirituality or your importance as a pastor’s wife. Have you allowed yourself to fall headlong into the 21st century’s Christian ideal of busiest equals best? How easy it is for our threads to tangle or skip a loop because of a schedule that is busting at the seams.
View More Time Management Foundations {Part 2}Your Ministry as a Pastor’s Wife
The day my husband stepped into the role of Pastor at our first church, I immediately acquired a new role of my own – Pastor’s…
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