http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/08/29/sometimes-if-i-dont-laugh-ill-cry/ digging deep, stretching up, reaching out Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:36:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/08/29/sometimes-if-i-dont-laugh-ill-cry/comment-page-1/#comment-1025 Women! : Beyond the 4 walls Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:45:20 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/08/29/sometimes-if-i-dont-laugh-ill-cry/#comment-1025 [...] I was over at Makeesha’s blog earlier and read her latest post which is about a response that has been written to a post Mak wrote a few weeks ago about a new course being offered to seminary students wives in order to prepare them for ministry. I’ve been pondering over the response to Mak’s post all afternoon, mainly thinking about calling and the role of women. One thing which disturbed me in the bloggers response to Mak’s post was that she said that pastors wives are called to be pastors wives. I have to really dispute this. I’ve never felt God “call” me to be a pastors wife. It’s not like he said to me one day “Lyn you’re going to be a pastors wife, so go off and find yourself a pastor to marry!” I believe that God brought Jonathan and I together and we have a joint calling to worship and serve God, as everyone does. I really struggle with this role and calling thing right now though. Sometimes we get so het up about what God wants us to do, that we forget to simply be with him, which is far more important. [...] [...] I was over at Makeesha’s blog earlier and read her latest post which is about a response that has been written to a post Mak wrote a few weeks ago about a new course being offered to seminary students wives in order to prepare them for ministry. I’ve been pondering over the response to Mak’s post all afternoon, mainly thinking about calling and the role of women. One thing which disturbed me in the bloggers response to Mak’s post was that she said that pastors wives are called to be pastors wives. I have to really dispute this. I’ve never felt God “call” me to be a pastors wife. It’s not like he said to me one day “Lyn you’re going to be a pastors wife, so go off and find yourself a pastor to marry!” I believe that God brought Jonathan and I together and we have a joint calling to worship and serve God, as everyone does. I really struggle with this role and calling thing right now though. Sometimes we get so het up about what God wants us to do, that we forget to simply be with him, which is far more important. [...]

]]> http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/08/29/sometimes-if-i-dont-laugh-ill-cry/comment-page-1/#comment-975 Paul Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:25:21 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/08/29/sometimes-if-i-dont-laugh-ill-cry/#comment-975 david, you can borrow one of my dresses, altho it's not a knitted number, i failed that class. bad wife buddy that I am ;) david, you can borrow one of my dresses, altho it’s not a knitted number, i failed that class. bad wife buddy that I am

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