You’re Going to Ask Me to Pray, Aren’t You?

You know the look. You’re just enjoying yourself, scoping out the buffet table, eyeing up the desserts and someone is really trying to catch your eye. You know why—someone has to get this party started.

That someone is you.

Fellow pastors unite in the singular experience of being called upon to pray before a group meal. More than weddings, funerals, or anything in-between, I think I am called upon most in my pastoral role to offer a simple blessing of food. Let it be known, I am ready to do this at a moments notice. I can be in a complete group of strangers and feel my the hairs on my head tingle, knowing somewhere, someone has just spoken the words: Ask her, she’s a pastor.

Read more here.