Folk often ask me: What do you like most about ministry? In a week when it seems easy to name those bits I don't much like, it's a good counter balance to reflect on some of my favourite things:
- When I return home awash with coffee because I've gone from home to home, admiring people's family pictures, hearing people's stories, enjoying the luxury of pastoral visits.
- Driving or walking around the parish and being greeted by name by school children and, often, being introduced to their parents.
- Having the opportunity to share and articulate a family's memories as they pay tribute and say goodbye to a loved one.
- The sense of "ownership" of parish and the responsibility of loving and caring for souls.
- The knowledge of God present in every chance encounter.
Just imagining you doing a 'Julie Andrews' in your lovely, high, shiny funeral boots!!!
ReplyDeleteDoes as all good to remember the blessings rather than get bogged down with the rubbish!
Thanx for sharing this!
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