The Best Advice for a Pastor’s Wife (and Everyone Else)
Thu, 09/14/2023 - 12:00am
A couple of years ago I started feeling a little bit discouraged. A combination of factors related to our church were piling on in an unusually burdensome way, and I just felt like there was a huge weight on my shoulders. As a pastor and a pastor’s wife, Chad and I are sounding boards and burden-bearers for many in our community, and Chad says that he has learned to embrace the melancholy that sometimes comes with being a spiritual shepherd, a counselor and secret-keeper. At times it is a weary load that a pastor, and often his wife, carries. It can be difficult to deal with people in all of their human glory, their faults and failures and their ever- pressing expectations.
