Having an office at home is what my husband has done for most of his ministry life. It’s truly a blessing – well, most of the time. The drawback is that it’s always calling his name and drawing him in to “finish up the details of a sermon” or “send a quick email.”
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to live in the same house with someone, yet spend very little quality time together? Oh, you eat meals at the table and chat about the day’s events, but sometimes it’s necessary to stop all the other activity – including those little details in the office, and just do something fun together!
Monday night I decided to do something we never do – eat our homemade pizza in the living room.We did so with the candelabra lit and music playing. It was great. Afterwards we pulled out the Scrabble tiles and played a game of Take Two (we play it kind of like they do in this link). I won the round we played, but that’s not what made it fun – it was just the time we shared together hunkered over the coffee table, moaning about the letters we’d drawn or asking questions like, “How do you spell…?”
We may have had a total of an hour given to dinner, dishes, and our game, but it was also a time to reconnect and remember that there’s more than just ministry that goes on here in the parsonage – there’s a relationship to strengthen and a marriage that needs keeping tabs on! The details on that sermon do indeed get finished, and the emails all sent on their way, but it’s the “stuff” that happens in-between that make me extra happy to share the parsonage with my parson!
From the windows of the parsonage,
RefreshHer 