Slowing Down with Ten Kids

Susanne Wesley, wife of Pastor Samuel Wesley, lived in the late 1600’s and early 1700’s

She gave birth to nineteen children, ten survived.

Everyday she would take her Bible to her favorite chair and throw her apron up over her head and sit their for two hours.

All the children knew to respect that moment—under that apron she was alone with God and was not to be disturbed.

There, in that tent of meeting, in that place of silence and solitude, Susanne Wesley interceded for her husband and her children and plumbed the depths of the mysteries of God.

Did it pay off?

Her son Charles Wesley wrote 6,500 Christian hymns many of which are sung today.

Another son, John Wesley, founded the Methodist Church, with 80 million members world-wide today, not to mention the holiness churches like the church of the Nazrene and the Pentecostal churches like the Assemblies of God that sprung from the methodist churches.