A KINGDOM OF MINISTERS AND PRIESTS

A KINGDOM OF MINISTERS AND PRIESTS

Reasoning why our Pastor came here,

To a small church on a hill…

It was more than a chance to be paid

And we all take it as God’s will.

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Something I learned in the past few weeks

Makes me more willing to attend…

Our Pastor and his wife had had a busy life,

This church wished to minister to them as friends.

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We can see our Pastor failing

With Parkinson’s and the like…

Depending more and more on his church

And on his nurturing wife.

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The reasons we attend are often selfish,

For attention and being entertained…

For those of us who no longer “lead”

Perhaps secret envy remains.

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Our priest and ministry calling,

Especially to the household of faith…

Is to each other as sister and brother

And to keep Pastor’s dignity safe.

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It was a “decent” crowd for Easter

But not yet filled to the gills…

It’s the weekly crowd of which God is proud,

That with love our Pastor’s heart fills.

–Jonathan Caswell