What I Learned About Sabbaticals by Finally Taking One
Michael Morgan
Mar 25, 2017
1 min read
"So it had come to this. Here I was, on some sort of quest to find my manhood, carrying a snack bag with a pink monkey on it. With 13 years of inner-city ministry, prison ministry, and church planting under my belt, I was broken, standing on the shore of an icy river, deep in the Rocky Mountains. Flinging my snacks aside, I fell to my knees in the snow and mud and began praying...."
Read the rest of this excellent post on the importance of sabbatical rest in ministry HERE.
Michael Morgan is the Lead Pastor at Calvary Wellspring in Aurora, Colorado. He also teaches at Gateway Seminary. He loves his awesome family and desires greatly to see Jesus made non-ignorable in Aurora and to the ends of the earth.
Reading this resonated with me more than I expected. Two years ago I finally convinced my partner to take a six‑month sabbatical from our demanding consulting jobs. The first few weeks felt oddly disorienting—no emails, no client calls, just the hum of the house and the ticking clock. I started to notice how much I’d been running on autopilot, missing simple pleasures like watching the sunrise over the river or cooking a meal without checking my phone https://www.aic.gov.au/ By month three, the pace shifted; I began sketching ideas for a side project I’d shelved for years and even took a spontaneous road trip to a small town where I learned to bake sourdough. When I returned, I carried back a…