Authenticity
I have been on a journey of discovering who I am and learning how to accept and love myself. I am married to a pastor and when he was getting ready to graduate Seminary and apply for jobs, it started to get real and my fears began coming to the surface. In all honesty there were many, but one of them being the idea that as the "pastor's wife" I would be expected to live up to a very specific standard. I was anxious about the eyes that would be watching, I knew that wherever my husband accepted a "call", I would automatically be under a magnifying glass. What I really wish is that before he graduated seminary we had gone through "pre-pastoral counseling". You know how many couples do pre-marital counseling? Kind of like that. In retrospect I truly believe that pre-pastoral counseling would have been just as important and beneficial. Before Norm accepted his position I started to think that maybe I should "tone it down" on Facebook. I...