I'm a Pastor's Wife? What?!

When my husband announced that he planned to take a church as the head pastor, my initial reaction was: What? I can’t be a Pastor’s wife! Now, wouldn’t it be nice if that story continued with: “Now my husband has been a pastor for ten years, and I am finally fitting into my role as a pastor’s wife”? Well, unfortunately that’s not how my story goes. My husband has only been a pastor for two years, and I am nowhere close to fitting into my role as a pastor’s wife, but I wanted to share with you our struggles, my struggles, our victories, our tears and our triumphs, and maybe even a few laughs. Hopefully this will encourage you, uplift you, make you feel better about yourself, or just let you know that there is someone else out there who is having a hard time with this whole “being-a-godly-wife thing.”



Saturday, June 1, 2013

Extraordinary

Now this entry isn’t really about being a pastor’s wife; it’s just about life, about hopes and dreams. 


Original Entry: April 28, 2013


I want to do something meaningful with my life. I want the people I love to be proud of me, pleased with my accomplishments. Sometimes I feel like they are more proud or pleased with others. What can I do to make them proud? Do I need to change my way of thinking (seems that I have to do that frequently)? Do I need to change what I do? How I live? Maybe what I think of as worthy of pride isn’t what I should. Maybe I just need to adjust my priorities. Sometimes I feel like we live such a mediocre life. Nothing of significance comes our way. In a world and culture where every other person is being discovered, it makes me wonder why we haven’t been discovered. Do we live such anti-extraordinary lives that discovery simply passes by us like the Angel of Death at Passover? Does our stench of mediocracy so repel the ever beautiful gods of discovery? Why, O gods, have you cursed us? No, you haven’t even cursed us. You have ignored us, which is a far worse punishment than wrath! We are here! See us! Notice us! We long to be extraordinary!




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