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Tip #15 for being a youth pastors wife

Well it's official.. Along with being a wife I have now become a mom.... Wow let me just sit here and let that soak in..it hasn't yet but I know that it will! I am a mom...someone that will claim me has his support and care giver until he is on his own.. a mom... Arie Malachi Guinen Born April 15, 2013 @ 11:45 pm! 7lbs, 5oz 20 inches long!! This little boy has stolen my heart. He came into this world after 17 1/2 hours of the labor of love :) I was doing great and going through the labor part of it when contractions had started, after my water had broke and after 12 long hours I gave in a took some pain medicine. Pain medicine that I will tell you I will never take again in my life. They need to change the name to " this will not help your pain at all but make you feel crazy and not remember a lot of what's going on in the room around you" medicine. As the medicine wore off, the nurses came in to tell me that I had stopped p

Is it true...

Sitting in my students art class today we had a project to draw our favorite animal and tell why we chose the animal that we did.. As I sat and watched my students draw... some drew dogs.. A bear.. A giraffe and so on when I overheard what one of the other kids was drawing in the class.. He started off drawing a snake and explaining that he is sneaky and that's why he drew the snake and when he was told that it was a contest in a way he decided to draw another animal that he knew would win because of what it represented and everyone would choose it because of that and that was the Jesus fish.. When he started talking about how he wanted to draw it because everyone cant not choose the Jesus fish because if they didn't choose it then Jesus would be mad and all this other stuff it made me start to think... The kid said all of this in a joking matter and made sure everyone around him was laughing some way because he wanted to sound really cool.. Of course he didn't win beca

Whatever you do... Tip # 365 for being a youth pasters wife!!

This whole summer has been one of many adventures!! Currently I am experiencing one of those adventures in Athens, OH at a camp for a missions trip. Your tip for tonight is that as a youth pastors wife prepare your mind body an spirit for no sleep but memories for life!!! Coming into this trip I expected it to be amazing and for God to work and he never fails to amaze me!!! I have seen so much out of this group and the week isn't even over yet!!! We have had students bond in ways that I haven't seen in a group in a long time.. Prayer for ones who are sick and had to leave our adventure a little early and reach out to people in need in a way that brings joy to my heart! Although this week has been full of amazing praises we have seen our set of small storms.. Such as students not feeling well and having to leave.. Cars that break down and scare us and watching our hearts break over the other storms in people's life. Through all these things good and not so good things

Tip #345 of being a youth pastors wife!

You will get your heart broken! Working in this high school everyday my heart breaks for these students. It's funny once your heart goes towards youth every time you see youth you tend to cling to them! Walking these halls and seeing their faces.. Their relationships.. Their desperate call for attention and their attitudes it kills me because I know they could have so much more! Being in high school isn't easy and I understand that but don't they know there is so much more! Everyday I go out of our classroom and join up with another classroom that one of my students goes to and I sit here and just watch these students.. I watch and see myself in these students and think about the things I did in high school and how I learned from it so much but wish I could just tell them there is so much more.. I hear their conversations and it makes me want to leave the room because I cant even think about the stuff their doing.. I see the way they act and I see the way they dot car

Tip #9 for being a youth pastor wife!

" In His great mercy he has given us new birth into living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade..." - 1 Peter 1:3 So many times in my life and even right now in my life I can feel at my lowest and feel like I am fading with life and it's brought on difficulties. In life we always have days, weeks and sometimes even months when we feel at our lowest and feel like it will never get better. My day is like that today when everything gets under your skin and you get so irritable. Being at work is something I love but days like today when the classroom is crazy, students are upset and crying, matientence people are fixing things, people over the loud speaker and everyone around you talking louder then the person next to you so you can be heard and you feel like your body is going to explode! As I sit there at my desk I couldn't do anything but pull my Bible out and just get into His word an

When its time to leave...

coming to the end of it all, i didnt think or even want to be the one to dwell on it but its happening as I sit in my last class of my undergraduate degree.. it's finally here... As I sit here and drive on campus, I get overwhelmed with thinking of everything God has done in my life here at Ohio Christian University! The Graduation of High School was the start of it all! coming into school only knowing one person..she made it so much easier for me! as time went on our group of friends began to grow and the memories began!!!! Student Life! Falling In Love with My Best Friend! Celebrating Weddings!! and as it all comes to a close..i will remember.. The: walmart runs road trips photo shoots surprise birthday parties dances but not really dances hang outs inside jokes drama teams snow fights lake jump and frozen lake walking chapel worship slee