Ministers Who Have Taken Sabbaticals, Some Questions For You
- w listopad 2nd, 2008 :: Ass Munchers
Did it just fly by, or did you miss your church as much as I’m afraid I’m going to?
Because my congregation is “my best thing” (remember in Beloved when Sethe says that her baby daughter was “her best thing?” “She my best thing,” she said. Granted, Beloved was a tragic story about murder and trauma and the evils of slavery, but I have always loved the beauty of that line).
Church my best thing.
There are many other delights in life, goodness knows, but church is my center, my chief joy, my inspiration, my place of deepest meaning. Do I just stay well out of town and stay absorbed in other things, attend other churches (maybe become a regular at one specific congregation when I’m in one place for long enough)?
How do you keep from calling the office every few weeks and asking how everyone is, […]