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The Time Crunch: What to Do When You Can’t Do It All is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Pastor’s Work is Never Done. Sometimes you feel like you just can’t win. While you are praying, you feel you should be studying. While studying you feel you should be out visiting. While visiting you feel you should be with your family. And while you are with your family, you feel you should be spending more time with the Lord. It’s a vicious circle. Driven by both a relentless sense of guilt...

miles from his home. He leaves home Sunday evening and returns Friday night and assumes he will spend twelve hours a day in the factory. Todd commutes two hours a day. Mary, a doctor, leaves home at 6 A.M. and considers herself fortunate to get home by 9 P.M. When her beeper goes off during one of our council meetings, she’s out the door. Parish pastors do work long, hard hours, but they aren’t the only ones. • Work will expand to fill the time you give it. Most jobs require a minimum amount of time
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