I am excited for the evening!  Tonight Sonya and I get to go on a date.  My parents are coming to get the kids and we will be off to eat a nice med. rare steak for dinner.  It has been quite some time since Sonya and I have had a dinner to ourselves.  Too busy with ministry and a 19 month old running around.  But tonight is the night.

I feel blessed to have a wife such as Sonya.  She is truly a trooper.  In the last two weeks I have been gone about six evenings.  Busy seasons come in ministry but it is usually the pastor’s wife that bears the brunt of it.  When I am gone, Sonya gets little relief from child-rearing.  I thank God often for a wife who will keep going even when it is tough.