There was a time, when I thought my pastor did nothing. I’m ashamed to admit it, but I thought he was some guy with soft hand, listening to praise music while shut up alone in his house. Maybe he prayed while pacing the floor and on the one day of the week, when he did decide to do his job, Sunday rolled around. What did he do with his days? Okay maybe he studied, he wrote some note, called the chore director and requested, “ How Great Thou Art” to be done in the key of G (if that’s even possible), ya know church things. Or maybe he’s seen now and then, in his garden pruning roses and wearing, Kakhi’s , like the State Farm guy. I’m sure there’s an ounce of manliness in there somewhere. What did the man do with his time and for that manner, what in the world did his wife do? Was she hiding somewhere behind the church pews scaping gum. The gum from a kid who needed to find a quick spot before heading up to take juice and crackers. Maybe she was at a bake sale, nabbing customer with her church lady talk, as they walked out of the grocery store.
Oh it’s funny how different it is to walk in another’s shoes, and folks I’m wearing church shoes. I have come to the reality that church pastor might be one of the busiest, most exciting, challenging, interesting, and even entertaining job we’ve ever done. I live with a cowboy church pastor. I love the church pastor and I know that woman who is called the pastor’s wife. Oh wait that’s me! I can’t believe it myself…nor can the pastor I live with. He reminds me that I’m one when I get a little unruly……I believe he says something like, “Honey, I can’t believe you’re a pastor’s wife?” To which I answer, “Oh yeah, you’re right!” Just jokin’…..I know I’m the pastor’s wife and I’m honored to be one.
I Use To Think My Pastor Did Nothing…….but…here’s what he and his wife did last week….(I have changed the names to protect the innocent, or to keep my job). You will also notice a mingling of ranch chores in between church chores. It’s how we roll……so here we go!
- Checked waters
- Fed cattle
- Checked a bull with a limp
- Meeting with Sally Mae at the church. I feel like the police chatter…..so I won’t say…. for instance, burglary at 705 Pecos Street….
- Bottle fed a calf …several times
- Skype study with my homies
- Threw in some laundry
- Cooked lots of somethings in an iron skilled, thew in a big lump of butter and cheese and called it good
- Drove to town, met with some more homies (homies=study group with women who are all up in my stuff). In other words, a group of us that get together to know God better thru studying.
- Premarital Counseling via FaceTime with a couple who live to far away.
- Ranch visit. We live in an area where this is more than a 15 minute drive, this particular one takes us an hour and a half to get to……………but who else gets to do that? We love our job!!
- Plan for a funeral, these are usually quite hard because living in a ranch community means you know the person. You and your neighbors feel the loss.
- Saddled our horses more than once
- Sermon prep (for my man). I just give him loud pastor wife cheers and pass out “vote for Pedro” signs. O.k. that’s only funny if you’ve seen Napoleon Dynamite……maybe I will delete this line later!
- And all the inbetweens…….like washing the inbetweens, and dishes, and weird yellow stains on the floor!
These honestly were things we’ve done in the past two weeks. I couldn’t list them all but just a little taste of the glory! So, why tell you this? Perhaps you’ve done it too…..had a preconceived idea of what someone does, or what their life is like. We really never know until we walk a mile in their shoes, or boots, or flip flops…..hey, to each his own, right?
So the question to you…..Have you ever done this? Or what do you do that others might not realize you do? Let’s keep it legal now…..Ha! Ha! Thanks for reading! And don’t forget, Love God and Love People…it’s that easy! thecowboypastorswife
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