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As I look around my yard and flower beds at the end of winter, I am so discouraged. Remnants of dead leaves and acorns from last fall lay scattered all over the ground. My bushes’ unpruned branches are extending their territory in an unruly manner. The ground is barren and the grass is sparse. As […]
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.” (Galatians 5:14-15) If you attend a rural/small town church like me you’ve been to a few potlucks. They seem to be […]
I readily admit – I would not choose ANY times of grief that my husband and I have experienced over the past 18 years of ministry. I also can admit that my ‘grief vision’ is flawed and retrospective. God foresees and oversees each moment of grief in a way that my heart is learning to […]
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9 Turn on the news these days, or read social media, and accusations are flying. People are positive that someone did something with the worst of motives. They are positive that this person or that person is lying. They did it. They […]
I feel it in my shoulders first, then the pit of my stomach, and finally it feels almost as if my throat is constricting. My familiar friend anxiety. It can manifest itself in all sorts of ways, but today it was my usual. Standing in the kitchen I felt overwhelmed by the prospect of things […]
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.” (Galatians 5:14-15) With all of the social media out there you’d think as Christians we’d be really good at loving each […]
New to ministry, I remember sitting in a seminar room with other pastors’ wives when our speaker asked us to write down one ministry fear. I feared many things…but surprised myself writing, “to be too tired to serve well.” I feared burnout! Though almost two decades later my propensity is still toward burning the candle […]
Music is a beautiful language which speaks to our souls. Words on the wings of music often break through and affect me much deeper than speech alone. The second verse of a hymn, Beneath the Cross, by Keith Getty teaches, admonishes, and convicts me: Beneath the cross of Jesus His family is my own Once […]
Maybe you have a 100% perfect record in pastoral care, but I must confess – my husband and I don’t. Over the years the accusation has been made on more than one occasion that we haven’t cared for a hurting person like they needed. It’s hard to hear. I always want to defend us, explain […]
I love it when flowers and a legacy of encouragement go together as in the life of the late Dr. Lois Evans. After her homegoing on December 30, 2019, the same month she turned 70, Lois’s family wrote, “In lieu of flowers, we would love your help in continuing the ministry to Pastors’ Wives that […]
