{"id":470,"date":"2007-07-28T00:05:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/470"},"modified":"2007-07-28T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T04:16:11","slug":"the-pastoral-life-heavenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/470","title":{"rendered":"The pastoral life. Heavenly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often tell people that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never had a bad job, and I can say that honestly. I even enjoyed my years in parish ministry, due in great part to having landed in a great congregation. Although pastoral ministry remains one of the most unique and challenging jobs today (and according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/jmm.aaa.net.au\/articles\/19641.htm\">National Opinion Research Center<\/a> it is a job that reports a higher level of satisfaction than more \u00e2\u20ac\u0153prestigious\u00e2\u20ac\u009d careers), like most any job is has its plusses and minuses. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/50151622.jpg' alt='50151622.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out coach and consultant Margaret Marcuson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two recent playful blog entries on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/margaretmarcuson.com\/blog\/?p=39\">Ten Ways Ministry Can Be Heavenly Job<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/margaretmarcuson.com\/blog\/?p=40\">Ten Ways Ministry Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a Heavenly Job<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t resist adding my own list. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on <i>you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re<\/i> list of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best and worst about the unique work and vocation of ministry? <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/galindobanner3.jpg' alt='galindobanner3.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>The complete National Opinion Research Center (NOR) report can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www-news.uchicago.edu\/releases\/07\/pdf\/070417.jobs.pdf\">here.<\/a>      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often tell people that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never had a bad job, and I can say that honestly. I even enjoyed my years in parish ministry, due in great part to having landed in a great congregation. Although pastoral ministry remains &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}