I was at a conference for pastors and their wives last January. After several hours of some great teaching with 200 other pastors' wives, the speaker asked us to break into groups and define a "bedrock truth" that we've found to be foundational as pastors' wives. After several groups had [...]
I love summer because it usually means travel for our family. Sometimes that's just around the midwest as we travel wherever God has had my husband, Craig, speaking. But sometimes it's more adventurous - like last week. We got to spend a week on the coast of Alaska seeing amazing [...]
In Ecclesiastes, God reminds us that there is a time for everything. But all too often we think that the time for everything is NOW. Figuring out which season of ministry we are in can help us to seize the moments and opportunities that are passing but also to practice [...]
We pulled in to the Beginning of Life headquarters with 6 suitcases full of gifts, equipment to treat them to a spa night, and resources that we'd brought to help them with this enormous and difficult calling that God had given these women. Beginning of Life works with girls coming [...]
Recently, God picked up our family (out of a church that we were doing cartwheels to be able to serve), carried us right down the street (30 minutes down the interstate really), and dropped us into a whole new place where we get to serve Him. During the transplanting process, [...]
Craig and I have an ongoing conversation about finding rest. We don't do it very well by nature - not that we aren't lazy at times - but we tend to be pretty driven. As I have been thinking about God's call for us to rest, I've realized that I've [...]
Isolation Betrayal Leading on Empty No time with my best friend- my husband Kids are object of everyone’s opinions Criticism Expectations Disappointing people Feeling like a "Ministry widow" Can you identify with these? Perhaps only a few or maybe several. There are chapters in ministry life when I’ve identified with [...]
So much has been written lately about joy. How to find it. How to keep it. How to cultivate it. And how to practice it. We seem to run after it more than at any other time in history, according to how often it is the subject of articles, books [...]
“I don‘t need a church, I need a family.” I’d watched her spend the last 6 years since high school in and out of church, trying to figure out where it fit into her new life as an adult. She’d gone from telling God to “forget it” to realizing that [...]
We often look at our outward actions to see how we are doing in the category of being "other's-centered". We took a meal to someone - or we spent the day running after kids - or we helped a family move. While those are all good things, God has reminded [...]