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The Rev. Eugene Stockstill

If you have a preacher, you may wonder what your preacher does day-in and day-out. After all, "preachers only work one day a week,” and honesty insists on acknowledging that this can and does happen in some cases. In other cases, your preacher functions a little like John Coffey in the story “The Green Mile.” That film should be required viewing for anyone starting full-time parish work.

Lots of preachers also happen to be closet poets, musicians and artists, and vice versa. Dyk that Van Gogh was known to fill a pulpit from time to time? The best of any genuine vocation touches the edges of great mysteries in the same way our deepest arts do. “To me, the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

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The Rev. Eugene Stockstill is pastor of Ebenezer United Methodist Church and Myrtle United Methodist Church in Union County.

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