Category: Equipping the Pastor’s Wife

I sat there in my floor-length dress, waiting for the worship service to start and feeling their eyes upon me. Some in anticipation, some in…

View More When the Pastor’s Wife is the Drummer

In our rural district hunting, gathering, and gardening are popular for entertainment and economic value. We haven’t given hunting a fair shot yet, but with…

View More The Lesson at the Strawberry Patch: Waiting for God’s Provision 

My memories of Sunday School reach back to the old musty basement of our centuries-old church building. I can yet feel how the cold of…

View More Patience through Pain

“Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see” (Hebrews 11:1). For years, my husband has…

View More Hope as a Spiritual Workout

Usually writing articles for this blog comes easy for me. I had many ideas for the second part of this series before the deadline compelled…

View More Strengthen HOPE by Building Character: Growing with Others

The first house my husband and I owned was perched on the edge of a tree-lined ravine on top of what is known as the…

View More Strengthen HOPE by Building Character: Alone with God 

I was scrolling through Facebook when it happened. I thought of someone who had left our church a while back, wondered how they were doing,…

View More Unfriended & Unseen

I’ve never understood the way Jacob treated Leah. Even as a kid the story of Jacob and his two wives bothered me. Why did Jacob…

View More Old Testament Examples of Hope: Leah

I struggle with understanding some of the stories in the Old Testament of the Bible. David is one of them. I oscillate between feeling like…

View More Michal and Unlikely Hope

“There is none holy like the Lord:     for there is none besides you;     there is no rock like our God.” 1 Samuel 2:2 Hannah’s Prayer…

View More Hannah: Rock-Solid Hope