About AMCU IV (4)

GRACEFUL DANCERS, THREE-MILE-AN-HOUR MINISTERS

About the Roman Catholic archbishops and Jesuit priests (that attended the event):

During meetings, you do not see them sending text messages or picking up phone calls. You see them giving all their attention to the meeting as if nothing else matters.

During mealtimes, you do not see them rushing off to attend to the next agenda in their tasklist. You see them sitting down with you and spending time to converse with you.

During private conversations, you are not worried that you are robbing their precious time, for they are attentive and responsive to you.

They are busy but they never show it.

Their presence radiates rays of calmness and serenity.

They are the graceful perichoretic dancers, they are the three-mile-an-hour ministers.


About Protestant ministers (not all, but an observation of many ministers today, including me):

During meetings, you see them sending text messages or picking up phone calls. You see them giving minimum attention to the meeting as if everything else matters.

During mealtimes, you see them rushing off to attend to the next agenda in their tasklist. You do not see them sitting down with you and spending time to converse with you.

During private conversations, you are worried that you are robbing their precious time, for they are inattentive and unresponsive to you.

They are busy and they always show it.

Their presence radiates rays of disturbance and restlessness.

They are ungraceful perichoretic dancers, they are the seventeen-mile-an-hour ministers.