I can picture Christmas supper and birthdays, friends around the real wood fireplace, new books written here, tinies on trampolines, a garden at long last for my patient husband, late nights and early mornings and creating
comfort as ministry.
It must come
as something of a shock to many of these people to realize that over the last yen years the bulk of his time has been spent in a
ministry whose chief work is preaching, baptizing, celebrating the Eucharist, teaching, counseling the troubled,
comforting the sick and bereaved.