and professional lives” and “balancing a clinical caseload with other professional involvements such as research and teaching that can replenish us” (1990, 146). Ministers, too, must seek such balance as essential for self-care. The third effort that might help ministers to maintain their balance as they offer grief care is encouraging and allowing the larger community of faith to do its part in caring for those who grieve. Sometimes ministers feel enormous responsibility to care for those made vulnerable