Preacher’s Wife Teaching Life

It's hard to let go sometimes, isn't it? Maybe not for everyone but for a lot of people, it's easier to just do things yourself so you know it'll be done "right" (by right I mean done the way you want it). Or even the times when things are NOT getting done we think, "I'll just do it myself!" In the past year, God has been teaching me that I am not the one that controls my circumstances, He is. Quite frankly, He's teaching me how much easier it is if I just hand over the reins. What's funny is He had the reins the whole time! We just THINK we have control. God has revealed this to me through recent events and the quality of my life has greatly improved. Once we figure this out and let Him rule, everything else falls into place...everything seems to get easier...we start to feel real freedom. In reality, my circumstances, financially or physically or anything else I've been worried about, have not changed at all; my mind has been tran...

A year ago, I "retired" from teaching high school math to join Jarrod in his ministry. I can't believe it's already been a year and am amazed how much our lives have changed since then. Quitting my job and losing my nice salary and benefits were not easy things. It was scary and not something I would normally do. The old me would NEVER quit a secure job without having another job lined up - logically, it just doesn't make any sense at all. The old me valued a post secondary education, having a salaried job, and doing the logical things in life. It just made sense. About 3 years ago, I began to grow very tired of driving 45 minutes to work everyday but REALLY liked the school I was teaching at. So you say, "what's the problem? Just move. Duh!" Well the problem was that we received words from our Father that Jarrod's ministry would be in our hometown and that we were to plant roots there...so you probably can see my dilemma. I began to ask God to...

My name is Jessica and my husband's name is Jarrod. We believe in God. We also believe in the spiritual gifts. Jarrod is an associate pastor at a small church in our hometown. It is a non-denominational church; by this we mean we are Bible based, spirit filled people who just LOVE enjoying God. We each have very good and close knit families but we also view the church members as our family. We love them like sisters and brothers and really enjoy spending time with them. Everyone has their own passions; some of us share passions. My passions include my husband and dog, teaching math (even though I "retired" last year from the teaching field, I tutor students and use every chance I get to explain math to people), and a good, strong cup of coffee. :) My favorite spiritual gift to learn and practice and be practiced on is prophecy. Prophecies are when God's children ask their Father for a word and hear it through feelings, verses, maybe an audible voice, a thought appe...