Hat or Heart? (4)

It's been 3 weeks since we started "labelling" ourselves using a 1966 book “Minister's Wife: Person or Position?” by Marilyn Brown Oden.  Maybe you haven't labelled yourself but I know self-awareness is key to self-mastery. Just like this book, you may want to prop yourself up with a few pillows as we try to wrap this series up...if we can.

So far, we've talked about the detached - "Mrs D," the Background supporter -"Mrs B", and the Incorporated or active participant - "Mrs I" now let us talk about my addition - the Echo or Shadow "Mrs E."

Hat or Heart? (3)

For the past 2 weeks, I've been sharing excerpts from an article* based on the basic groups of pastors' wives as outlined in the 1966 book: Minister's Wife: Person or Position? What does it mean to be in one of those groups i.e. the detached, the background supporter, and the incorporated or active participant? More importantly, which of these groups do you belong to and what can you do to be a better Mrs Pastor irrespective of the "group" you belong to? We've talked about Mrs D and Mrs B, now it's time for Mrs I. Comments in red font mine.

Hat or Heart? (2)

For those of you just joining us, we started on this topic last week.  Apparently, besides the "labels" we have to endure from others, fellow Pastors' wives know that we all come in different shapes and sizes. We already talked about Mrs D (check last week's post here: http://mrs-pastor-and-pastor-mrs.blogspot.com/2013/02/heart-or-hat-1.html). This week, we'll move to Mrs B - my comments on clips from the article* are in red font.

Heart or Hat? (1)

Planning ahead, as I sometimes successfully do, I was thinking about a theme for this month. After much thought, I decided that since February is gradually becoming known as "Heart Month," I should write along the same lines. Nothing was coming from within, so to speak, so I reached out (more like, researched) to seek external expressions and found an article titled: "The pastor's wife: detached, supportive, incorporated?"*

Knowing that I can be all of these - at different times of course, I decided to share it with you and see whether it's your heart or the hat you're wearing at the time that places you in one (or maybe none) of these groups...  Now since it is "Heart month" you'll notice that my comments on clips from the article are in red font.