Musings of a Clergy Child

• Clergy child's lament
• Introduction

Tips for clergy children- Bring-and-share lunches are highly unpredictable

• Sometimes the smallest offerings have the biggest impact
• People will come in and randomly start dismantling your house
• Do not give out your address over the phone
• Boundaries are excellent things
• Don't feel obliged to invite the entire congregation to your birthday party
• You will never realise how important your hospitality is until you're on the receiving end of someone else's
• Always lock the toilet door. A surprising number of people will just barge through closed ones
• Teach your parent to turn off their phone
• Make sure you check out the parish profile before your parent applies for a job
• Learn to accept strange gifts with grace
• You are, to all intents and purposes, the vicarage social secretary
• If someone's coming to stay, make sure you're informed well in advance
• It's OK to grieve
• Don't bother waiting for your parents before leaving church. It's a waste of everyone's time
• There are certain things you should never tell a caller
• Always carry ID. You never know when you might need to prove yourself
• Your love life will be a continual source of parish speculation
• Sometimes it's just awful, but God is still good
• Forgive; it changes lives

Letters- A letter for the new clergy child

• A letter for clergy parents
• A letter for when the church has hurt you
• A letter for when you feel as if the church has stolen your parents
• A letter for when a friend leaves
• A letter for when you feel inadequate

Musings- Coming home

• Dancing in the grey
• Confessions
• Chains
• Walking the forgiveness path
• Interrupted
• Trust and obey
• Hide-and-seek
• Be still
• Barefoot
• Battling
• Fingertip faith
• Prayer for a friend
• Here is love
• On being human
• Naked
• Out of the ashes
• At the feet of Jesus
• Heaven has a climbing frame
• Without words