revmusings

Have spent this morning with a wonderful hospital chaplain to get a better grip on what is entailed. I spent a year before I went to college as a Chaplaincy visitor, one afternoon a week but the work of a paid chaplain is different. Much of what she did I would enjoy, all the conversations, the meeting people where they are, walking with them part of the journey, or even the whole of the last bit is a real priviledge, that makes you reliant on God at all those times when you come to the end of yourself and have no answers, no trite theological statements to hide behind.

To be fully available to anyone and everyone when they need you most, to be be, as best you can, Christ in that situation, to bring love, grace, acceptance, forgiveness, comfort to people in difficult places is our calling.

There things I would hate, things I am not good at, and I do worry about my ability to be keep it together when all I will want to do is cry - but I would need to be the rock. I know the theory - God helps you but in practice?

Anyway its not for now so I don't need to worry about it but it did give me food for reflection just in case God ever tries to lead me down that path!