A look into the heart of Ministers Wives...

This week is Spring Break here in Katy, and it has been such a great week for me to get caught up on a lot of things here at home! Not teaching this week has been such a nice break!

I've also been working on being consistant with Parker's potty training, but that is another post! Maybe tomorrow :)

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As I was catching myself up on a lot of the blog's that I love to read, but rarely have time to read anymore, I ran into this post on Beth Moore's blog at LPM blog and wanted to write some thoughts about it.... as I sit here with tears in my eyes, I was so touched by these three short clips... If you are reading this and you've always wondered how you can pray more specifically for your Pastor/Ministers & their spouses who serve on your church's staff... click here to go to a post of 3 videos she put up that are just some "annonymous" quotes/thoughts from a conference for ministers wives that she just did in Nashville.

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I could totally identify to many of these thoughts from women who's husbands serve in some form of ministry all around our country. Serving in full-time ministry is an absolute BLESSING!But, at times, it can also be the most isolated & lonely calling. I once heard someone say, that "there is no vacation in ministry because Sunday is always coming." And how true that is...

Brian & I have only been in ministry together for almost 7 years now and my "role" in the whole pictures has definitely changed over the past 4 years since having McKenna & Parker.

My #1 priority is my relationship with my God, #2 is to my marriage to my amazing husband, #3 is that I can be the best mother than I can be to my two children who I love with all my heart! #4 our Home, making it the place of refuge & our haven together, and #5 is serving in our church family/ministry.

Over the past few years, I really have struggled with my "identity" in our ministry together, because it has changed during thise phase in life. My main priority in my family right now and having two preschoolers is an extremely demanding job!

There are times that I feel guilty that I am not more involved in our student ministry right now than I am...but I have peace and rest in the fact that I know I am doing my best with what I have to give at this phase in my life right now. I definitely have a passion for ministry. Watching students give their lives to the Lord and to watch them GROW and develop their own passion for Him is the most gratifying feeling, and to be apart of what God is doing here in Katy just leaves me feeling completely blessed and humbled that He would choose to use Brian & I with all of our flaws & imperfections to do His Kingdom work! It is so exciting to be apart of what God is doing!! I wouldn't change it for the world! Yes, it is SOOO hard being 7-9 hours away from our families back home, but when you are where the Lord wants you to be, doing what He desires for you to be doing... there is nothing that can compare to that kind of peace. To see my husband so happy, fulfilled, challenged, growing, leading, and enjoying going to work every day makes it all worth it. I have the best husband in the world!! Not only is he an amazing Student Pastor, communicator of God's Word, and a great leader...but he is amazing at balancing ministry & our family. That is such a blessing that he is always so conscious about making time with me & the kids a priority! There is ALWAYS ministry to be done, but you only get these brief moments together as a family for a moment.

Anywho... sorry for the "randomness" tonight...isn't that what blog's are for?!? ;)

I just found her post tonight to be interesting and thought I'd share.... please do your pastor's wife a favor and bathe her and her family in prayer right now... you never know just what she or her family might be going through at this very moment.

There is so much peace & power in prayer!

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-Phillipians 3:8-11

"Nothing is as wonderful as knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have given up everything else and count it all as garbage. All I want is Christ and to know that I belong to him. I could not make myself acceptable to God by obeying the Law of Moses. God accepted me simply because of my faith in Christ. All I want is to know Christ and the power that raised him to life. I want to suffer and die as he did, so that somehow I also may be raised to life."