Summer sympathy

Amanda on June 26th, 2010

Now, I just added this wordpress ap to my phone so I can try to post from it. We will see how this works. I am a horrible texter and hate, passionately typing from this tiny little keyboards. Sobthis will definitely keep my babbling to a minimum. And if there are typos let’s just pretend it’s our little game that you have to guess what I am meaning to say cuz if I have to keep pressing the delete button…I’m screwed. And when I post from my phone I don’t know how to add any cute little pictures. Anyone smart enough to explain that to me??
But what I have been really curious about and want to hear from you is what does this summer look like for you and your family? What is your husbands schedule? Usually this is “our” (youth ministry) biggest busiest season. Our husband are gone and coo coo and the rest I’d the church is just that – resting!
It’s hard to find some support and sympathy :)
I would love to hear all abou it!

Discuss (7)

Nancy at 7:09am June 28

Consider me entirely sympathetic! We have 2 trips down & 2 more to go at our house. Two mission trips completed & one youth camp & FCA camp to go. Our kids are missing Daddy a lot lately. Am I the only one who looks forward to school starting back? :-)

Christine at 12:15am August 22

wow! I have never related, sympathized and empathized with a group of women as much as I did while reading these posts. My heart breaks for you guys. My husband was gone 5 weeks out of the summer missions trips and camps. He missed our daughters first birthday and our anniversary. It is easy in my exhausition to become angry and feel cheated, but during moments when I do have the right attitude I am able to look and see how God has used my husband and remember we accepted the call to ministry knowing it would come with sacrifices. Some of you wives seem to be in some unhealthy churches. I believe churches should be encouraging pastors to take annual vacations even if it is busy. They need to have times of rest and be able to spend quality time with their families. I would demand this if it were my church, but I am also blessed to be at a church where the senior pastor encourages the staff to take intentional times of rest. This summer I thought we were going to have to stay home during my husband’s vacation time because we didn’t have the money to go anywhere. I was bummed because I know that if we stayed home my husband would have been pulled back into church one way or another. I looked into different free pastoral reatreat centers and serious considered a few. There are some really awesome people out there who have a made ministries out of caring for pastors and giving them and their families rest. One I know of is http://www.ZarMin.org. or Zarephath ministries Two of the most wonderful people I know run it and they have giant hearts for pastor’s and their families. They believe that times of rest are needed annually for pastors to prevent burn out. As for our vacation…. my husband did something bold and romantic. He posted a message on facebook asking if anyone would be willing to lend us a cabin
or summer home to us for a week for free. It was humbling to ask, but we were given a time share from a family member. It was awesome. The Lord provided us a place away form home to rest and reunite. I would encourage any of you women to look into taking sometime away with your husbands and remember the priorities in life are 1 God, 2 family, 3 church.

Know that you are not alone. I wish I could have tea or coffee with you all and discuss some of these things in person:)