The Preacher’s Wife

There is one person in your church
Who knows your preacher’s life
Who wept and smiled and prayed with him,
And that’s your preacher’s wife.
The crowd has seen him in his strength,
When wielding God’s sharp sword,
As underneath God’s banner folds
He faced the devil’s horde.
But deep within her heart she knows
That scarce an hour before,
She helped him pray the glory down
Behind the closet door.
She’s heard him groaning in his soul
When bitter raged the strife,
As, hand in his, she knelt with him
For she’s the preacher’s wife!
You tell your tales of prophets brave
Who marched across the world,
And changed the course of history,
By burning words they hurled.
And I tell how back of each
Some woman lived her life,
Who wept with him and smiled with him—
She was the preacher’s wife.
—Author unknown
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