“She was going to be okay. I knew she was. She had forever changed my life and I had changed hers. I had heard a soldier once speak of the camaraderie men who fight in battle have with each other. I felt that way with Bathsheba now. She was more than just a name in my Bible, and we’d become more than just friends.” ChurchHistoryBibleBible HistoryA Marriage In Time Author:Anna Aquino
“An idle mind was a recipe for disaster. Bathsheba wasn’t just teetering on the edge; I knew she was going to be diving right into a pool of tragedy.” ChurchChristianityBibleBible HistoryA Marriage In Time Author:Anna Aquino
“Jennifer was good at her job and loved it. However, I hated the fact she was forced on me. She was young, beautiful, and thin. Everything I never felt that I was, and she always insisted on wearing heels and cute little suits in the office. Really? Who had such bionic feet that they could wear those day in and day out. My attitude toward her bordered on civil with a touch of sarcasm. I was sure she had stories to tell the women in the church on how hard I was to work with. I told myself I didn’t care. I’d wear flip-flops and flats at my desk and sequester all shoes over a two-inch heel to be worn only on Sundays.” ChurchChristianityShoesHeelsA Marriage In TimeFlipflops Author:Anna Aquino
“Wasn’t I allowed at least one nervous breakdown a year? Maybe next year Jon and I could pencil it into our calendar. Maybe we could post it in the church bulletin. It would read “ATTENTION: Our Dear Pastor’s wife is scheduling her annual nervous breakdown, so if you could avoid calling, texting, emailing, or whining in her direction for the next week between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., she would be most grateful.” ChurchChristianityA Marriage In TimePastors Wives Author:Anna Aquino
“Nosey gossiping church members were sucking out my passion for life leaving me an irritable shell of what I felt called to do on this earth. Surely that hadn’t been God’s will. The comfortable stuffy American church needed to wake up from their petty problems, and see what it was like for two minutes for Christians in the rest of the world.” FaithChurchChristianityA Marriage In TimePastors Wives Author:Anna Aquino
“I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the mask of ministry, and knew that I needed to start living the life.” LifeChurchPerfectChristianityMaskMinistryPretensionA Marriage In Time Author:Anna Aquino
“Repentance seemed like too loose of a word. I knew I’d been wrong, but that didn’t soften the blow.” ChurchChristianityRepentanceA Marriage In Time Author:Anna Aquino