Re Ministers as a Mission Project, June
In my 38 years as a minister, I have seen some incredible human hurt because after the first responders leave we are usually the ones to pick up the pieces of the parent whose child was killed in an accident, drowned, sexually assaulted, stillborn, or died from an illness.
I don’t think I am more “special” or “needy” than anyone else in the caring professions but in my years in ministry I have seen so much human hurt (and joy) that my heart has broken (and been uplifted), as I believe God’s heart has been.
Clergy are not superhuman. They are ordinary, fragile people who are very aware of that fragility and who often, along with their families, pay a huge emotional cost because they care so much and believe that God calls them to do so.
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