Pastor's Perfectly Performing Possession

This is a repost. I was touched with a brand new appreciation for my perfectly performing possession last evening as I watched her pass out muffins to urchins and then take flowers to a nice little grandmother. Preacher Man you and I need to remember the emotions of our hard working wives. Blessings...rks

Pastor…..

When you got up this morning your perfectly performing possession was already performing…

Today she will perform for your children, church, family, community and you…..

If you handled one dilemma, she handled twenty…..

She keeps the women of your church lined up so you do not have to worry about the men….

She coordinated the chicken dinner to pay the insurance premium, while you sat over at the folding table with the brethren…

She will be there for prayer, teach her class, lead her choir, lead the praise team, dress her kids, iron her husband’s shirt, pick up the neighbor kids for Sunday School, make plans for the pot luck dinner, remind the youth leader about the car wash, clean up the mess left in the church nursery, answer the phone twenty seven times, get somebody to run up and pick Sis Juanita because her ride is out of town, smile like a china doll, clap when nobody claps, act like she is really enjoying your sermon, she works the altar, help the 8 year old change clothes to be baptized, welcome the visitor family from the other church, run interference for you while you greet the visitor family, listen to the chronic complainer, referee the spat between the two rivaling mommies, hug the grannies on afghan row, remind Sis Betty about the upcoming chicken dinner, fuss at the 16 year with chin whiskers, gather her stuff and kids and get them in the car, serve as hostess at the Waffle House for the same two high need families she hosted last service, take a cell call between words with the high need wives, gather up her kids and husband again and go home, finish homework, rinse out the dishes in the sink, scrub the kids, feed the dog, tuck in the kids, take a dip in the tub, and still have time and energy for you………

And while you will drift off to sleep pastor…..

She is left with the performances of the day racing through……

And the performances of tomorrow beginning to cloud the horizon of her mind…..

Pastor, the most vulnerable person in the parsonage is that perfectly performing possession you take so for granted….

Ah yes Pastor, we understand that you carry the souls of the saints and the responsibility of providing for your own family…..

But she dear sir holds it all together for you…..

She gives until she is emptied out to make your ministry and kids the best it can be…..

And who gives back to her…..

She gives until the emotional, spiritual and physical gauges in her body register empty….

Is it any wonder that some of those perfectly performing pastoral possessions have….

Found comfort in the attention of another man…..

Or withdrawn into her children and left you to pastor all alone…..

Or found solace in herself and became carnal because maybe a haircut, or coloring in the hair, or those gel nails, or that slinky outfit, or the color placed on the face might just make her feel like somebody……

She empties herself for you sir…..

What are you doing to make sure that her emotional tanks are not empty….

Pastor friend, I have seen so many of our wives seemingly change or have another spirit come over them all because they have given until they cannot….

Pastor, that perfectly performing person and possession that presides along side you in the parsonage……

Is the most vulnerable person there…….

Beware….

And care for her…

For pastor without her….

You are pitiful…

Pathetic…

And powerless