Posted by Dinah on May 17, 2005, at 19:43:42
In reply to Re: Loss » Dinah, posted by messadivoce on May 17, 2005, at 16:15:59
That must have been a tough life growing up.
I belong to the Methodist church, and pastors are more or less expected to move from what I've heard. We've had him for ten years, so I guess we were lucky. I've probably been going there for seven or eight years. I love his sermons, and he is very knowledgeable. But I never developed a personal relationship with him. His leaving will probably affect me less than when our Sunday School teacher left and I had to stop attending. She was kind of like a mediator between me and the rest of the class.
I guess I do think it's being treated glibly in a way, but in a way that I understand is part of the church organization. I was really handling it fine until his little speech. I'll have to ask my husband exactly what it is that he said.
Obviously some buttons were pushed.
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