Category: Equipping the Pastor’s Wife

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