Yes,
Easter tends to be more crazy than Christmas
1st of all pastors tend to run double whatever number of services they run Christmastime during Holy Week: I’m at the bare minimum of 3 (4 if you count Palm Sunday)
Plus, usually, my kids are off that same week, so I get to gesticulate around that and the fact its a superbusy time of year.
Plus, people volunteer to do things less–Christmas is just more of a pitch in holiday. How many people really want to help out with the Good Friday Service (altho we do a service of the nails that is poignant and beautiful)
Its a crazy week for me I have two parishoners in the hospital/recovery, plus the other 4 homebound who I would like to see during this Holy Time, plus a session meeting to make certain things are in place, plus an all day Persbytery meeting (which they always schedule the week before Holy Week, which always leaves me scratching my head), plus whatever other office-y stuff I need to do.
Then there is real life. The things that happen that make you a pastor, the things that aren’t on the calendar.
My colleague Sarah Ross said “In minstry, I don’t really plan a schedule so much as I just plan to be interrupted.”
Nadia Bolz-Weber once had an intern who shadowed her. At the end he said ” it was “oh my gosh..you’re A PERSON for a living!””
So, interruptions and being a person are my goals for the next two weeks…God sanctifies them and makes them holy
katyandtheword 