tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post3568638956663231066..comments2024-03-17T09:17:01.454+00:00Comments on Vic the Vicar!: Sunday is a fun dayVic Van Den Berghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09581156515370131898noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-17780028593563954802017-01-09T07:12:30.841+00:002017-01-09T07:12:30.841+00:00An interesting question, Who do you work for? I s...An interesting question, Who do you work for? I suspect that you have to say, that you work on behalf of the people of your place, as the bridge between them and God and the Bridge between God and them. An intermediary, who allows God's Grace to flow, backwards and forwards to those in need of it, and the grace that comes out of that service, to flow back to God.<br /><br />The comparison that our curate made with Jacob's ladder in a recent sermon struck me at the time when thinking about how we worship and that ladder with Angels going up and down bringing grace and returning grace stuck with me, several weeks later.<br /><br />And the vision that I held while in the discernment process, was very much like that - and <br />George Guiver writing about the life and work of a Priest centred me on the the Sacramental nature of all things, people, the Church, the World and Creation. Viewed through that Lens, the holiness of the life and work that you do becomes (to me anyway) evident.<br /><br />While I've put that particular route to ministry to bed, still sometimes, when I see the chalice being raised at HC, I hear a voice saying whistfully, "you should be doing that", It isn't going to happen now, but the original vision still hides there among all else going on and pops up occasionally.<br />UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.com