Carol is Ken’s wife and the amazing mother to Caleb, Josh, and Hope, and Hannah’s favorite mother-in-law. She is the “Head of Homeland Security,” making sure the immediate family and our extended Rock Solid family are safe, secure, loved, and healthy. If she sees something about to fall off someone’s plate, she’ll catch it before it falls, and do whatever it takes to get things back in order. If Ken is the visionary entrepreneurial balloon floating above Rock Solid Warrior and other ministries he’s involved in, Carol is the string that keeps him grounded.
Proverbs 31:26-31 (ESV) describes her well:
“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.’
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.”
The fruit of her hands are all working at the gym and bearing more fruit, and she’s still beautiful. Although you may rarely see her at the gym, she still contributes herself in so many ways. Carol has an accounting degree and a servant’s heart. She is a background person that takes care of all the details the rest of us miss: bookkeeping, paying bills, running errands, making sure everyone is fed on long competition days, and a hundred other things.
Does she ninja or rock climb? Nope. But she is an incredible cheerleader.
And she’ll treat you with care and compassion, as she has done for everyone she knows throughout the years.