Sunday, March 20, 2005

It was our pastor's last day at church today. He's leaving to pursue other things that he's been wanting to do for a while. A couple of people got up to say something nice to him and his family in front of everyone in church before the service started. Then he said thank you to everyone and said thank you to his wife for standing by his side for the 12 years he was a pastor. I started crying, then we had to sing another worship song for the offering. I'm in the worship team at church. So, everyone saw me crying. But it's ok, everyone was sad. My husband is on the committee to search for a new pastor. Hopefully it won't take too long. But you also don't want to rush into anything. I have mixed feeling about our pastor leaving. I know his wife never wanted to be a pastor's wife. So, that must've been difficult for her. I was thinking a lot about my husband during this whole thing today. We've been discussing him going to seminary to become a pastor. I wasn't sure about it. We would be living in a fish bowl. But he feels very strongly about how he could impact people's lives by being a pastor. I don't doubt that he would be wonderful at it. I could get used to the idea of me being a pastor's wife. I just really feel like you have to be very conscience about everything that you do or say to people if you are a pastor. I am also concerned about how people will react to the fact that our oldest son has a mild form of Autism. I just need to trust in God, that He knows what he's doing. He will take care of us no matter what happens.

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