Aaron and I have been in and out of "ministry" and ministries for the last 6 years. Longer than that if you include the ministry we each did before we started dating and got married. I always had a perception of what it meant to be "in ministry"- being a pastor, being a pastors wife, and being a parsonage family. 



Now for those of you who's heads are already spinning, I'll lay it out like this- being "in ministry" just usually means that you hold some sort of…

5 months ago I stood in my kitchen and with the hardest heart, full of anger and bitterness, told my husband he had until the end of the year to get his act together or I was leaving on January 1st. A few weeks later I decided that I was done, I had had enough and I was ready to walk away from my marriage. I didn't leave, but I might as well have. I checked out of my marriage totally and all I did was exist in the same house with him, and barely that. It's funny how selfishness tints a…