Tim and Kim Hodge

The Pastor’s Quill

May 13, 2012

To all of you MOTHERS: “Happy Mother’s Day!” This is YOUR day and I hope your husbands and kids make it all about you. You are all AMAZING!!!

I would also like to take a few moments here to acknowledge the greatest woman in my life: my wife. I believe in every woman there is an innate ability to ‘mother.’ Then there are some women who have a ‘gift’ to mother – not only their own kids, but everyone around them. The latter is the category my wife, Kim Hodge, falls into.

My mother-in-law (whom I affectionately refer to as ‘Mom’) has told stories of how Kim mothered people around her from a young age. The story has been told how Kim’s younger brother, Duane, had problems learning how to talk because Kim babied him and would finish his sentences for him when he was a little tyke. She would frustrate him and he would say, “Nim, let me yalk.”

The Bible says, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord” (Proverbs 18:22, NKJV). Some of us have been blessed with experiencing this verse. I know I have. I found a wife when I thought I’d found a beautiful, young, caring girlfriend. I didn’t realize until years later that I had found a wife and my life had been favored by God.

Kim and I married in 1985. She was 19 and I had recently turned 21. We married young and moved away from all our family where I attended four years of Bible school. She has been faithful, loving, caring, and supportive. On May 23, 1990 we were blessed with the arrival of Teddy. Around three years later Kendall was born. About three years after that Josiah came on the scene. We contemplated holding at three children. But, alas, that three year cycle rolled around again and we were blessed with Jordan (whom I nicknamed our ‘Happy Baby’ because he laughed all the time).

Teddy was six weeks old when we assumed our first pastorate. Over the years that have followed, I have watched my wife grow into the Pastor’s wife and co-pastor that God has ordained her to be. I have watched her mother our children, but I have also been mesmerized as she has matured into the spiritual mother to people in our churches. She has lovingly encouraged, exhorted, and corrected many as only a ‘mom’ can do.

Those of you ladies at CWOC, I would encourage you to get close to Kim Hodge and let God’s gracious anointing on her life rub off on you. I love my babies’ momma.

Pastor Tim Hodge