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Earlier this week we had a plumbing emergency. The master plumber who rushed to our home at 9pm informed us we hadn’t lived in our new home long enough to cause the extreme clogging of our main pipes.

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I have a very dull sense of smell but I’ll take my family’s assessment of the stench being “unbearable” as truthful.

He said this type of a back up, which included an overflowing toilet https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚽" title="Toilette" aria-label="Emoji: Toilette"> and sewage flowing out of our shower https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚿" title="Dusche" aria-label="Emoji: Dusche"> drain had taken years to accumulate.

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Those who lived here before us are long gone yet, we had the privilege, as current residents to clean up the uh, “mess” others had left.

This situation reminded me of human relationships and pastoring.

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Often the majority of a pastors work is doing the privileged work of cleaning up the messes of others after they’ve been long gone. All the while dealing with the feedback of others complaining about the smell yet rarely pitch in to help clean up & sanitize the area.

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October is #PastorsAppreciationMonth and many pastors are out here struggling. Please love on your pastors, not just in October but as long as they have the privilege from the Lord to serve as your pastor.

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Pastors, you are loved. Thank you for loving us by helping to clean up our messes! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏🏽" title="Folded hands (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands (mittlerer Hautton)">