Roy Oswald wrote those words over 25 years
ago. How true they ring still
today! Generally, we may talk about
health more as a society than in the past, but has our attitude changed that much? Oswald named a “sort of eschatological fatalism” that clergy use to justify
our lack of self-care. He says, that
clergy “feel that if they expend themselves completely in the Lord’s work, God
will look after them—body, mind and spirit…. Because the final goal is to be
with the Lord, it is all right to mortgage one’s body against this final
eventuality.”[2]
What is your theology of
self-care? Have you even thought about
what the theology is behind how you care for yourself?
Those of us who are in full-time
parish ministry often talk theologically, but do we think about the unspoken
theology that is expressed in the way that we take care of ourselves?
If you are interested in improving
your self-care while looking at this care through a theological lens, then I invite you to watch this page and also to like the wHolyLife Facebook page. These are geared for clergy who
want to engage in mindful self-care that increases their health in body, mind
and spirit.
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