Pause for Pastors: Finding Still Waters in the Storm of Ministry Author Micah Solomon When the priest read this

When the priest read this Gospel story in Mark 4

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Pause for Pastors: Finding Still Waters in the Storm of Ministry Author Micah Solomon When the priest read thisI remember my final Sunday as a lead pastor. Though I often forget things, I can't forget that. Faces and voices, a sanctuary and a pulpit, many years and many moments. Memories were breathing all replaying at once. Life and death. Marriages and funerals. Prayers and songs and laughter and disagreements and meals and conversations and pain. And more prayer. As I think back to those experiences, I'm asking myself, What did I learn? Not, Did I succeed