Saturday, April 19, 2025

More of the Same

 

Walking in the springtime woods soothes the beast

Here came letter authorizing me

to call special charge conference

to set new pastor compensation

via Zoom on Sunday early afternoon

very soon

simultaneously with committee chair saying

I don’t know how to do this!

I don’t know what I’m doing!

I don’t know how to use Zoom!

I don't know why I'm not supposed to talk to you!

in a way that worried me

please don’t quit at this point

I didn’t say.

 

Instead: soothing words.


 Do you have the compensation figures I asked

no she replied

we'll have to get that if you're going to present it

we - not just you - I'm right beside you.


The email from assistant to DS said

tell your Administrative Council to attend Zoom meeting

I emailed back do you mean Admin Council

or charge conference it’s two different groups

in a few hours return email said

admin council charge conference whatever

people call it different things

it should be members who vote at charge conference

(sigh) thank you I said.

 

Pastor and chair have script we must read

(chair told me this 

DS has told me nothing)

Sunday of announcement

there will be no livestream

announcement must be kept secret!

really?

let’s tell the whole church and keep it secret

this process makes me glad to retire.


Somehow I’m supposed to be

in a Holy Week frame of mind

what I need is a walk in the woods. 

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