Thoughts on Ministry

I've been thinking a lot about ministry this past week - and what a blessing it is to have colleagues who have your back and understand what you are going though, even when others do not.

There are certain people along your ministry path who you solidify with well, or a certain group that you fit in with. For me this is both older clergy, who treat me like their granddaughter in the faith and apostolic line and and young clergy. Another young clergy who is having a tough year pulled me aside around the middle of last week and spoke such words of encouragement to my heart - telling me that I matter and my ministry matter. That seems so basic, but sometimes I seem to forget. He went on to say that my ministry is important because it is so different from my prior colleagues at this parish - they were high energy and go go go all the time. I'm more of a calming presence with a focus on spiritual formation and Christian education the programs. For this colleague of mine to notice this across such a distance was profound to me - even though we don't see each other very often he understands me in a very real way.




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