no church tomorrow

 My contract only allows me to do 3 Sundays a month at Trinity. Milton.

Tomorrow is my Sunday off this month.

I jokingly said at a Wednesday Bible Study at Trinity that "I keep working even though retired because if I wasn't celebrating I wouldn't go to church."

People laughed.

But I long ago realized that jokes are often ways to tell an uncomfortable truth.

That's what that one is.

On my Sundays off I either take a supply job or don't go to church.

I'm a priest, not a church-goer.

That may sound like a contradiction.

But for me, it's true.

I love church when I'm preaching and celebrating.

Otherwise, not so much.

Alas....