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Learn to balance the professional demands of your ministry with
your personal needs No amount of research, study, or planning can
prepare pastoral care givers for the stress placed on their
personal lives by the demands of their ministries. But Grief, Loss,
and Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry can help anyone involved in
pastoral counseling close the gap between their professional and
personal needs, encouraging them to use the stress, loss, and grief
that accompanies pastoral care giving as opportunities to humanize
their ministries and reaffirm their faith. This unique book offers
comfort and solace to those in the chaplaincy who are torn between
professional obligations and the limits and boundaries of the
shadow side of their ministrythe human side. The shadow side of
ministry shoots a bullet through the brain that does not kill or
prevent thinking or feeling. But the bullet creates a hole, a long,
hollow, empty wound that thinking and feeling must somehow bypass.
The wounded minister does not recover the previous self, cannot
remember what the old self thought or felt. Like a veteran of a
secret war, there may be a new life after the shameful wound, but
no public way to heal. But there is a public way of speaking about
it and this may help relieve some of the shame and some of the
self-blaming. Author Halbert Weidner Grief, Loss, and Death: The
Shadow Side of Ministry can help in your search for the answers to
questions you may have already found yourself asking, including: Do
I prefer co-workers or friends? How did I lose focus of my original
goals? How did I become isolated? How can I share authority without
giving up responsibility? How do I cope when family issues arise?
The book also addresses issues of illness, death and suicide,
funerals, the confrontation between joy and sorrow, and how life's
stages are often like the Stations of the Cross. Grief, Loss, and
Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry is help against despair.
Newcomers to the profession can use the book as a guide to the
difficulties that lie ahead, and experienced pastoral care givers
can employ it as a catalogue to be consulted when all hope seems
lost.
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