A Little Advice for the Man?
A dude (I’m assuming) found my website today by Googling:
“Why did my wife freak out when I told her I was called to be a preacher?”
Anyone care to give him a reason or three?
aka The Preacher's Wife
A dude (I’m assuming) found my website today by Googling:
“Why did my wife freak out when I told her I was called to be a preacher?”
Anyone care to give him a reason or three?
Or 50! HA! If she’s like me, she’ll eventually settle down and then love it.
I once titled a post “crossdresser” about my 2 year old boy loving my shoes and jewelry and how they GROW out of it…I can’t even tell you how many googles there were for that post…not good…I ended up just saving it as a draft so it can’t be googled by the crossdressers anymore :) Oh the stuff I’ve learned…
That’s hilarious…I can’t believe he actually wrote that out! Brave!
That is HILARIOUS!
Hmmm… perhaps she was not ready to be rolling in all the dough that ministers bring in.
Because she hasn’t read your site and doesnt’ know she can still wear cute shoes!
I feel that if the man is called that means the woman (his wife) is called too! She might be freaked by the prospects! Ministries wife’s have to put up with alot (especially their husbands being on call 24/7). She’s probably overwhelmed!
Because she knew that your calling would soon become hers. It’s a team effort and you’ll need her more than you’ve ever needed her before. The role of a pastor’s wife is an occupation all its own.
Maybe she thinks she needs to buy 100 pairs of nude pantyhose and loads of prarie dresses. I would be freaking out if I were her too.
I hope he pastors in a church where she doesn’t have to do that!
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Hahaha! That is hilarious!!
And don’t the “marriage experts” say that women crave stability and security? The thought of moving around the country with little promise of “job security” really tests your faith! In hindsight, I can say moving around is one of the best things we ever did, but it’s not easy.
All I can do is laugh … ;)
(Poor guy.)
As a woman who just recently became a pastor’s wife, I must admit I was freaked. I was worried about being “in the limelight” and having to set an example. I felt like all of this pressure would be on me, we’d have no money, everyone would judge every little move I made…
And she may have been worried for you, too! Being a pastor is hard work and not for the weary of heart!
What?? You mean there are people who DON’T WANT to live in a glass house? Amazing! Ha-Ha!
that is truly too funny…..
I had to share that with my husband! Too cute!
Women like security, and a sudden call to preach can bring all kinds of insecure thoughts to a woman’s mind…I can just picture those old-time traveling preachers riding the circuit on a horse, the wife and children living off the generosity of church folks…
I laughed out loud! Let’s see: not enough money, judgmental people, people telling you how to raise your kids, and let’s don’t forget the loneliness!
But the upside is it really makes you rely on God in ways you could never imagine! And despite it all I would not have it any other way!
love the comments!
Hey Lisa,
I just read your spotlight on the Siesta Fiesta blog and I wanted to say “Hi” and introduce myself. I’m Groovewoman and am still pretty new to the blogging thing. I only found the LPM blog 2 weeks ago, so i am new to the Siesta’s as well and no one has a clue who I am… At least not yet :D I will be goin to San Antonio and am looking forward to meeting you and the other Siesta’s!
And OUCH!! Your post made me crinch, because I’ve had the toenail extraction surgery… double OUCH! I’m glad that your toes is better. I am notorious to stubbing my toe on things. Drives me nuts!
I know this is an old post but I just found it as I’ve been digging through your site.
Maybe she freaked out because she doesn’t want to share her husband with everyone, she doesn’t want all her friends to suddenly see her as a “spiritual professional” so no one will really bond with her until they have a crisis in their lives, she’ll always be taken from and receive little, she’ll live a life of loneliness as a result and life will always be a struggle of serving and giving till you’re drained beyond what you think you are capable of handling. She doesn’t want to feel like she has to live up to the expectation of others to be perfect in her marriage, her home management and her parenting.
Yes, hopefully she’ll follow her man into the role God is convicting him to take on and she’ll rise to the occasion to support and love him through it even if it means surrendering herself every day to it. The reward will be that God will use her greatly, her husband will prize her as the best of women, and Jesus will give her rest and peace in heaven.
It will help her to put this by her bedside.
“Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of His Father, not to the needs of men. If I’m devoted to the cause of humanity only, I will soon be exhausted and come to the place where my love will falter; but if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity though men treat me as a doormat.” Oswald Chambers
a pastor’s wife for 13 years