Hi Sweet Friends, I remember often reading and hearing about the phenomenon of being sandwiched between the needs of children/grandchildren and parents. I brushed it off, thankful that I wasn’t in that phase of life. And even so, I planned to arrange the situation to work well for me. You know, manipulate and control the… Read More »

Hi sweet friends, I have a question for you. Think about it carefully. What or who most influenced your perception of what your grown-up relationships would be like? Who were you watching that gave you the idea about what you wanted or expected in a marriage, as a parent, as a friend? What influenced you… Read More »

Hi Sweet Friends, There is a verse in Isaiah 6 that has been used at many mission conferences and sermons compelling the faithful in Christ to give up everything and commit to going and doing whatever God asks of us. In the days of Isaiah of the Old Testament, God was going to send a… Read More »

Hi sweet friends, I’m not sure that this has ever happened in my limited blog-writing experience. I wrote a blog and, as always, read and reread it. It felt a little like confetti thrown in the air, sort of a collection of disconnected pieces; but I often feel that way. My heart was to express… Read More »

Hi Sweet Friends, Have you ever heard of church-envy? Me neither. I made it up. It’s just the closest words I could find to name a phenomenon I have recognized in myself. If I had to name this blog, I think it would be Confessions of a Pastor’s Wife. The truth is, I struggle with… Read More »

Hi Sweet Friends, When our ladies’ Bible study at church recently read the account of Jesus calling a group of fishermen to be His first disciples, I read something as if for the first time. Though I would have read it countless times, I had no recollection of it affecting me as it did this… Read More »

Hi Sweet Friends, We had the Christmas story and Christmas songs in our thoughts, ears, and hearts for months. And lest we forget, we had commercials and Walmart ads reminding us we better hurry because we don’t want to miss out on a great deal. We want to make all of our loved ones happy,… Read More »

Hi Sweet Friends, It’s been a while. I thought maybe my blogging days were over, but here I am again. There were a hundred reasons for me not to blog, still are. But after reading my three-page Christmas letter this year, Kevin said I needed to cut half of it out and start blogging again.… Read More »

Hi Sweet Friends, If you were in church in the 1990’s, you may be familiar with the book Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby. It was a study on knowing and doing the will of God. One question from that study that I still remember after all these years is this: what work of God does… Read More »

Hi Sweet Friends, Those of us of a certain age will remember the concept of a hope chest. The tradition of a young girl storing away treasures in a chest to be used in the life she hoped for probably ended with my generation. Or maybe the one before me. For generations, many families were… Read More »