Q and I were talking the other day about how long he’s been in school and we realized that it’s been 22 years. He’s only 29!
We got married in July of 2007 and he started seminary that August. Our life together has consisted of seminary, ministry, and adoption.
To say that the last six years have been crazy would be an understatement. In six years we have moved four times, served at two churches, gone through three adoptions (one failed), lost his mother to congestive heart failure, and somehow survived all these years of seminary.
I have to just say how proud I am of the commitment he’s made to finish his education. Even through the heartache of his mom’s death and the craziness of our lives, he has been determined to finish his master’s degree and now even talks about pursuing his PhD.
As a kid he suffered with a learning disability and was told he would never go to college. As a teen the Lord took his life and heart and flipped his world upside down. At seventeen he accepted the call into ministry and at twenty he took his first ministry position. At 23 he was the first person in his family to graduate college and he’s never looked back.
Seminary, marriage, and parenting (all at once) is not for the faint of heart. These years have been stressful and even lonely at times. Hours and hours of reading, papers, exams. Weeks away at conferences and weekends traveling for hybrid classes. It’s been a commitment that could have either strengthened our marriage or torn it apart. Although some days we’re grasping for just a moment of time together, I can honestly say that seminary is one of the greatest blessings I’ve ever been given.
To see my husbands knowledge and love for the Lord grow over the last six years is amazing. To see him use that knowledge to not only lead our family but to further the kingdom; I’m honored to call him mine.
To see this man that was once told he’d never go to college reading commentaries, preparing sermons, and writing lengthy case studies and papers, is a true testament to the power of Christ to completely change someones life.
When the Lord saved Q’s soul at fifteen and called him into ministry at seventeen, His word promised this:
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:6
The work that He began in him is being fulfilled daily as we continue to pursue the call that he’s laid on our lives. I’m just blessed to be his Seminary Wife!
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Christie is a stay-at-home mom to two beautiful little girls, a pastor's wife, and lover of Jesus. Her hope is that STC would be a source of encouragement for women all over the world!
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Emily Wright says
I’m reading the Evangelism Handbook by Reid right now for a class!
Christie SatisfactionThroughChrist says
So funny!! Where are you in school at?