Okay, this one is free. ***** Rural legend #1: Pastor’s wives are perfect. Rural legend #2: Christian moms don’t yell. Rural legend #3: God is silent. Rural legend #4: The true-blooded lady is prepared for every situation. ***** Rural legend #5: Men are people too. Don’t you believe it.
Rural legend #1: Pastor’s wives are perfect. Rural legend #2: Christian moms don’t yell. Rural legend #3: God is silent. ***** Rural legend #4: The true-blooded lady is prepared for every situation. Believe it or not, this is the myth with which I tortured myself during my teenage years. Last Saturday morning I went out
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Rural legend #1: Pastor’s wives are perfect. Rural legend #2: Christian moms don’t yell. ***** Rural legend #3: God is silent. God is not silent. God is so full of words that when He tried to cram them all into a book, He had to use fine print and thin pages. His words are there.
Rural legend #1: Pastor’s wives are perfect. ***** Rural legend #2: Christian moms don’t yell. I thought this one was true for a long time, because my own excellent mother apparently did not. I have no memories of her yelling, and when I began to shout at my kids, I was horrified. What was happening
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Okay, hang on, hang on. That’s not the full title of this post. The full title is “Debunking the Myth of the Perfect Pastor’s Wife, and Other Rural Legends.” Debunking, you see. To tackle such a doughty topic, I needed a pal. So I asked my friend Luci, my beautiful friend Luci Martin from way
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Confession: Getting a family over illness is a ten-stage fiasco. When you are at your sickest, you think, “If I am ever again free from pain, I will be grateful for the rest of my natural days.” And sure enough, upon recovery you go through a deeply grateful phase, in which simply being able to
Do you write New Year’s resolutions? My favorite way of looking forward to the year is simply to note what’s already going to happen, if the Lord wills. This gives me hope and cheer, without me really needing to do anything about it. Here’s my list for 2013. Aarick will turn 8, advance a grade.
Confession: I always wanted to look appealingly pale and tragic when I’m sick or upset, a sort of damsel-in-distress approach like in fairytales. But instead, I only manage to look like a suffering sheep. I want to say this about being sick on holiday: it stinks. I spent a lot of time between Christmas and
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In the Bleak Midwinter Christina Rossetti, 1872 In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him Nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away When
My advent assignment yesterday: Write a letter of welcome to Jesus. ***** Dec 21, 2012 Dearest, Please stop by my house this afternoon. I just made some hot chocolate; the snow is falling; the house, at last, is peaceful; and I finally sat down. I think I hear you at the door. You will come
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