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Whether you are a woman who has just said “yes” to a man who is called to be a pastor, or you are a young mother trying to raise three children in an old parsonage, or the wife of a pastor who has been preaching for any number of years and your children are grown, […]
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, […]
Her question caught me off guard. I was chatting with a woman who was visiting our church. She had attended our church previously, before my husband and I came, so she knew many of the people in our church, but was interested to get to know me a little bit. After telling me some about […]
Plans. We all have them. Even when we didn’t write out that list, somewhere dancing around in our heads, we have some ideas about what we should do. From bucket lists to grocery lists, we are people who make plans. To test my theory, and get some great laughs, I asked a few moms to […]
(This was originally written in May during church reopening conversations following the COVID-19 Quarantine in the Spring of 2020.) I see him sprinting. This pandemic is a marathon, but I see him sprinting every mile. Every time that it seems we might be able to slow down and catch our breath, there’s a new layer […]
Our society is in a battleground like never before. The threat of pandemic, the fallout from lockdown, and now the cry for justice and equality within our nation. Throughout our nation and even our world, we combat the fears of running out of life necessities, falling ill, and facing injustice. Anxiety is at an all […]
I wrote this piece back in January, when the COVID-19 crisis seemed far off and was something only occasionally in my newsfeed. But as the deadline for this piece came closer, I realized that while the topics of everyday conversation have changed drastically for most of us, the sentiment is still the same. While we […]
“Beware the people who meet you at the airport.” I’m not sure where we first heard this phrase in our ministry lives, but that advice from others who have walked the ministry leadership road before us has given my husband and me pause over the years. The premise of this statement is that the people […]
I would like to tell you a story. A personal story of heart struggle. This struggle began with a dream, a dream of who my children would look like, how they would behave, what talents they would possess, and how peaceful our home would be. It was a simple and innocent dream, a dream many […]
When I bought my car, it came with Sirius FM radio which has allowed me to listen to different types of music. I’ve found that I enjoy ‘re-listening’ to country music from the 80s and 90s. Recently, I heard Garth Brooks sing If Tomorrow Never Comes, a song where he wonders, if he died during […]
