2019
The Hard Work Begins
18/06/19
The wedding over, the hard work began: marriage. Mark and I had completed some premarital counseling at the church. It started with a compatibility test which we failed! I think the only thing we had in common was our recreational activities. I suppose it made sense since we met cross country skiing. I remember the pastor, in his own polite way, hinting multiple times, that perhaps this was not a match made in heaven. Mark was a Christian, I was not. Mark was a businessman, raised in a military household that attended church every Sunday in matching suits and sat down to a family dinner every night. He had a rebellious streak and partied with alcohol and drugs through his late teens and twenties. I was a vegetarian, tree-hugging, recent Berkeley graduate. My family rarely attended church, rarely sat down to meal together and certainly never wore matching outfits. I was a rule follower and definitely not a partier. In fact, in college I won my dorm award for quietest student. They gave me a dictionary. We completed the counseling, acknowledged there could be challenges and forged ahead. Read More…
God Pursuing Me
29/04/19
I started this blog talking about being a reluctant’s pastor’s wife so back to that story. I left off at “time to start a family” but I want to go back just a little further to share about our wedding. Read More…
