Why I Don't Hate Meetings
For years, I have been seeing a meme that reads something like: "I survived another meeting that should have been an email."After a year and a half of some degree of social distancing, I would say the biggest learning for me is that meme needs to go into the dustbin. About twenty years ago, when I first went before the COM (Commission on Ministry - the diocesan body that helps ordinands discern ministry), someone asked me, "What do you think priests do most of the week?" I answered, "From what I can tell, it's meeting after meeting after meeting." I got a nod of approval for that answer, and after a decade and a half of ordained ministry, oh how correct I was! Clergy attend a lot of meetings. In fact, prior to the pandemic, I was already quite familiar with Zoom, as the Church had been using the platform for years. What better way to meet than to not have to drive for two hours to sit in a room for an hour. I do sometimes wonder