On return from holiday I had lots to deal with, a pile of mail that was nearly as tall as me, various calls to respond to, and an update on all that had been going on in my absence. All good, or rather everything went well, though it had been extremely busy and very well covered by my colleagues. In the week since I've got back though I have had a number of conversations where people have expressed disappointment that 'The Vicar' didn't do X or Y, or that Clergy haven't visited certain folk - despite the fact that I know I have extremely competent colleagues and very good lay pastoral visitors from all of the Churches who have handled things as well, if not better, than I ever could. It boils down to the erroneous belief that things are somehow more 'kosher' if a man (preferably a man in many cases, but that's another issue which I am not going to rant about today) with a 'dog collar' does it, be it opening fetes, visiting people or services in...
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"Within the spiritual community there is never, nor in any way, any immediate relationship of one to another, whereas human desire for community, for immediate contact with other human souls, just as in the flesh there is the urge for physical merger with other flesh."
As I read many blogs, I notice so many of them are diary entries. So many of us want/need to be known. A personal blog supports that need. It need not matter whether the thoughts are erudite or not. The desire is that someone will read about in be interested in the fact that you put bananas in your Cheerios that morning.