Needless to say, October wasn’t Pastor Appreciation month that year. Looking back, I know many of our faithful church members were simply trying to hold on, to understand what was true, to keep believing in the idea of the church when it was the messiest place they could imagine. My husband and I kept our heads down and just committed to showing up for the next ten years. And that’s what we did. Because that’s what our church needed from us.

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