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Part two of a four-part series Today we’re continuing our CHEER for our husbands! Count it a joy to serve together Hear his heart Be Elastic Encourage Reconcile quickly Last week we talked about the C in CHEER – Count it joy! Today we’re focusing on the H (Hear his heart) and E (Be Elastic).
I’ll never forget watching some friends of ours share an intimate moment together laughing, kissing, and bantering; and I thought, “Wow, it’s been a long time since we’ve done that.” This was disturbing.
I smile as I think of the cheerleaders I knew in high school. (Hi! A ‘96 high school grad from Ohio here!) I remember their confidence and enthusiasm as they led the crowd in cheering for their team. I was never a high school cheerleader, but as the wife of a small-town, rural, church-planting pastor, […]
{This is part two of a series on friendship.} As much as I adore and love and feel absolutely called to serve those in our congregation, many of my lifelines come from my friends outside of our church. It is outside the church where most Pastors’ Wives feel comfortable being in their own skin and […]
Talking about friendships often has me humming the old Girl Scout Friendship Song I learned in first grade. “Make new friends/But keep the old/One is silver/And the other gold.” Both gold and silver are valuable, just as friendships both inside and outside your church are important.
Just down the road from my house is The Corncrib, an old corncrib covered in graffiti from decades of high school seniors signing their names. It’s a local landmark beloved by the community. If we were to chip away at the paint, there would be too many layers to count. The wounds left by criticism […]
{Part 3 of 3} When my husband and I first started dating, it was close to Easter. Because my younger siblings were not quite past the Easter-basket stage, my mom asked my husband what kind of candy he liked so she could include some of his favorites in his Easter basket. He assured her that […]
Have you ever had one of those moments when you met someone for the first time, but you felt like you had known them forever? It was intermission at our first concert of the year for the women’s choir at the Bible college I was attending. After the first hour or so of our concert, […]
“You get hit… Every time, feels like I’m gettin’ hit, too. And I’m not half as tough as you are.” In the film Cinderella Man, James Braddock is a New Jersey boxer who keeps fighting to provide income for his family. These words are spoken by his wife, Mae, at the beginning of the film […]
The window of my basement bedroom framed the bright silver moon as I knelt by my bed. I was home for study/reading days after our annual missions’ conference at Bible college, and I was wrestling with God. You see, when you attend a Bible school that is known for sending out more than half of […]
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