Why??

Tonight my husband, the pastor, is meeting with friends of ours who helped start the church that we all attend. Actually it isn't your average run of the mill meeting...they made list to share with him. The list contain comments, concerns, issues that they have with the church.

I found out the other day that this friend(1) had "issues". I couldn't begin to tell you where or when it began...but I have an idea.

We have had a few couples join our church that are for lack of a better word..."radical". Now you can be radical about anything and everything but your not allowed to do it in church or at least say it out loud.

Some people need a written statement of "doctrine". I thought the Bible was our written statement of "doctrine"?

Anyway, one of the couples that goes to our church, I have to admit...I was on guard at first too!
I didn't know quite how to take her. But once you get to know her so is a great person. She is now one of my friends(2).

Friend(1) believes that friend(2) has used her in order to get close to our family...soap opera time!!

I now see why preachers wives either have no friends or just a small few...it's kinda like high school all over again...I'm forty years old...I can't play those games again.

I truly love friend(1) and pray that she and her husband will be able to be open minded and let God guide them and not their feelings. I did tell her that no one ever tried to make anyone uncomfortable, on guard or excluded.

It's a shame that people can't come together to do God's work. I don't even know what to pray...except that God's will be done...no matter who's feelings get hurt.

I know that I have had my share of hurt feelings this week...it started out good.

Last Sunday we went to visit a girl who had just discovered that she had a tumor between her spinal cord and bone. Surgery was necessary and we (friend 2) and our husbands went to see her and her parents. The men stayed and prayed with her...the next morning in surgery they found that the tumor was now a blood clot. According to all of the x rays, that spot was a tumor...Praise God!!! Everything went good and she is now back home!!

That was such a billboard sign to me since I had asked F2 why were we even there since these people use to attend our church and left?

She said it was our job to minister to them. Then we get huge news like that the next day!!!

Moving right along...Wednesday is when all of this started...my 40th birthday...that is just what I needed...as if I wasn't depressed enough!!!

God be with all of the preachers wives in this country that are trying to do Your Will!!! No matter what they do, say or don't say it will somehow be turned around or used against them. How do you be gracious after one friend is accusing the other friend of saying unbiblical things?

Friend(1) didn't actually come out and say it but her concern is that the new people are teaching ungodly things...or at least things that she doesn't agree with.

WHY is it that this stuff happens? Is perception reality??? If so, then I percieve that Satan is using a friend to undermine the things of God...reality??? Maybe so.