photo courtesy of...... http://www.flickr.com/photos/audrius/''So, lets get this right.... you claim to hear from God, you work alone, you speak a lot trying to voice a community's hopes, fears, joys and despairs, you see people acting as a conduit for their joy, angst, pain etc etc and you do this alone?''' D'oh...
I never fully check what I've written on this blog in the past, but I think I have written elsewhere on 'The Messiah complex'---- that thing that siezes ministers that makes them think they are God--- ie if anything good has happened, it is down to them, if anything bad has happened it is their fault, if anything needs doing, only they can do it..... we all get it, I get it (fequently, but less so than before my sabbatical....I hope)...... I remember when I started the sheer covert (and overt) pressure to talk up how busy you were, how you never took time off....
In Wales I started to use a 'spiritual director'- a Roman Catholic monk- who would sit down, listen to me, pray, help me sift my thoughts and quietly teach me that I was not the centre of my world..... well someone helped me to find one here... I went a few days ago....
...next post says some more.......
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