Weekly Pastor Message

I am confident that most people have no idea what those of us who pour our lives into the lives of those God calls us to serve as pastors experience immediately following Holy Week. The truth is, I cannot explain it, other than to tell you that I feel completely exhausted as I begin writing this brief article. It is difficult for me even to imagine that I have enough energy left to complete it.The logical question is, “Why do I feel so exhausted?” I haven’t been digging ditches, plowing a cotton field behind a mule, or loading watermelons onto the back of a truck on a hot summer’s day. I haven’t even been running aimlessly up and down he street in the name of exercising.So, why do most of us who do what I do feel so exhausted when the Blessed Holy Week is over? I think I know the answer. Expending the amount of emotional energy we expend during Holy Week is far more draining than expending physical energy during the same length of time, unless, I do say, “Unless,” the physical energy is spent on an existential matter. We really do believe that the Resurrected Jesus is our only hope.For us, Holy Week is an existential matter.

 

Mac Goddard, Pastor