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I am a Six-Billion-Dollar Debtor. I’m trying to wrap my mind around it. Every day I repeat the words to myself as I work around the house because I need them to sink in; I need them to be as real to me as the things that I can touch and see. I want to […]
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,” Joshua 1:9. I try not to sigh in irritation as my son calls to me from his bedroom yet again. I ask him what he needs […]
I am sitting here on an extroverted high with a bit of introverted exhaustion after a week at RHMA’s Small-Town Pastors’ Conference. Yearly we gather near the corn and pumpkin fields of Illinois in order to have fellowship with like- minded people in small-town and rural ministry. It’s a unique conference in that way, which […]
I’m not a patient parent. I get frustrated easily and sometimes I let my impatience show. The last thing I want to do is make my daughter feel like she is less than enough. I also fear that I will pass the trait of impatience on to her. I would rather show love and acceptance […]
Last Sunday, as I did my volunteer task of signing people into in-person worship in the last days of covid-related restrictions, I found myself listening to a parishioner who stood near me for close to an hour, telling me stories about his life.
“That baby is just going to fall out of you” That was the common comment as I reached the end of my pregnancy. And I figured they were right. I had always had fairly quick labors and this was after all, number six for us, but we were all so wrong. After 20 weeks of […]
Your ministry situation might be different. I remember getting out of the car, so many years ago as a fresh faced girl with a baby and thinking that the added responsibility of my husband to preach and teach, not only to the congregation on Sundays, but also the youth group as well, was a special […]
“I confess, I’m discouraged.”
Nothing evokes feelings of uncertainty like driving in a blinding snowstorm. Unfortunately, my half-hour commute to work every day requires that I sometimes drive in those. One day I remember a storm blew up as the day went on so that by the time I had to drive home, the visibility was very poor, the […]
“Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down,” sings in my mind as I picture Mary Poppins working her magic. However, as fellow ministry wives, we know there’s no sugar involved in swallowing patience. Being married to a diabetic has given me a whole new awareness of sugar vs sugar-free. The sugar-free label […]
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