Is it weird that as I read your post, the lyrics from "Part of Your World" from Little Mermaid came into my head? Probably it is. But that said, I know exactly how you feel. As much as I felt disappointed that we had to cancel worship today (in no small part because I myself could not have gotten there, through our long, snowed-in driveway!) I am enjoying the slow morning. Even the disappointment was only partly zeal for the Gospel, and partly my neurotic "Protestant work ethic" kicking in. I wanted so badly to be the tough, Midwestern pastor who snow-shoed the eleven miles into town, just to preach to two people and play the hymns on my guitar... but it was not to be.
I think anything you do for a living, will at some point feel like a "job." I'm reaching that same point here. God understands, and I think on good days, God's people do too. Maybe this weather is just God's way of enforcing a Sabbath, even for us pastor types :-) Hang in there, preacher-woman!
Thanks for the thoughts, Tim! Which lyrics from "Part of Your World", I am curious to know, although I could fill in the blanks from my own mindset
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But that said, I know exactly how you feel. As much as I felt disappointed that we had to cancel worship today (in no small part because I myself could not have gotten there, through our long, snowed-in driveway!) I am enjoying the slow morning. Even the disappointment was only partly zeal for the Gospel, and partly my neurotic "Protestant work ethic" kicking in. I wanted so badly to be the tough, Midwestern pastor who snow-shoed the eleven miles into town, just to preach to two people and play the hymns on my guitar... but it was not to be.
I think anything you do for a living, will at some point feel like a "job." I'm reaching that same point here. God understands, and I think on good days, God's people do too. Maybe this weather is just God's way of enforcing a Sabbath, even for us pastor types :-)
Hang in there, preacher-woman!
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