of self-care. One tension we experience in self-care is that it takes commitment and we often feel we lack the time to concentrate on self-care. Another is that we need to do it ourselves, but we never have to do it alone. Asking, “Are you fit or unfit to be a pastor today?” Lloyd Rediger writes that “clergy fitness is a shared as well as a personal problem and responsibility.”1 A further tension intrinsic to self-care is that it is something you do, but it is also inherent in your being, who you