Hi. I'm Linda. My husband Jim has surrendered for full-time ministry. This means that he wants to become a pastor. He is "fired up" for Jesus. Everything at home should "glorify God".
My days these past few months since hubby has surrendered have been lonely and my nights as well. I don't know what's "normal", but I do know, it's lonely, for me. He gets home from work around 5pm. We don't have any "us" time. He washes up, eats dinner, and goes on his computer with e-sword and his Bible. He says he's only studying between 8 and 10pm. But I beg to differ. I can't remember the last time we did anything fun together. Oh, he offers to "talk" with me, if it's about the Bible. I tried that. It always leads into an argument. He's always right, and I'm always not seeing it right. Hmmm.
He also is the alternate teacher for our Sunday School class. So this adds to his "study time". He also meets every Tuesday with one of our pastors at church along with several other men. I was told that it was to learn to be a pastor. Now I'm told that it's how to have a Paul Titus relationship, not about pastoring. Church is 45 minutes form home. So that's 1 1/2 hour round trip along with meeting time, and gasoline.
OK, I said I'd support his decision to be a pastor. But how lonely will all this get before he's done?
