Pastors, Missionaries, Food, & Being Fake {Welcome Home Wednesday}

There were so many wonderful links last week, it was hard to decide what to feature and even harder to find a common theme to pull all the posts together with.  I ended up choosing some posts I thought would stretch and grow all of you in some ways you may not have thought of.

Proverbial Homemaker asked readers to pray for their pastors with this free prayer calendar:

Do you pray for your pastor?  Do you pray for your church?  Often, we think our church leaders are above sin, temptation and the doubt and frustrations we deal with.  But, they are human too!  Praying for them is so important!

Are you a mission-minded family?  Do you even know how and where to start?  Missional Call had a great post to help you get started building a missional worldview.

Did you see “Food” listed as one of the features?  Well, the post I thought would be most interesting to all of you is from a dear friend of mine – Linda at Apron Strings and Other Things.

This is an Intro to Freezer Cooking – Linda’s way.  I thought you might be interested to see how she uses this method to free up time for her family and serve them at the same time.  That’s really the lesson I wanted to share with you.  No matter how you find more time for your family, even if it involves cooking more WITH them, look for those ways you bring “white space” to your day and put your family first.

The “Being Fake” feature comes from a very convicting link left by Operation: Wife asking if you are a Virtual Wife.  What does that mean?  Well, consider the blog posts and Facebook updates you read throughout the day.  Consider your own updates and photos you post.  We don’t know what is really going on behind closed doors, and others do not truly know what is going on in our homes either.  Are you being “virtually” wonderful when your life is really in a shambles?  Are you able to discern the truth behind others’ posts and photos?

And finally, just for the beauty of it…

Gentle Joy Photography left some lovely sunrise and sunset photos with Scripture – the one above was my favorite.

The number one clicked post from last week was a birth story (I know…shocking 😉 ) from Candle in the Night!  (It really is a great story!)

Now, it’s your turn! Link up as many as 3 posts from your blog and enjoy the other links left here!  {If reading via email, please click over to see the links and leave yours!}

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