Other than Sunday

I received a job posting a couple days ago for a counseling position on and around a military base.  Flexible hours (it said).  It sounded appealing then and it still does today.  It took me a day or two to realize this is a lot of what clergy folk do.  We use the walk-around/coaching approach.  It was even in quotation marks in the ad.  

Other than Sunday, what do you do?  I wonder how I would count hours on a military base.

Counseling services need to be delivered face-to-face using a "walk-around/coaching" approach…

                                                                              Excerpt from a job posting received by email two days ago

I have done this for years.

I still do.

When people ask

What a priest does

They usually have a postscript.

It reads

Other than Sunday.

They know where you are

On Sunday,

Easy job if you can get it:

Lead a service

Preach a sermon

Hang out with the family

The rest of the week

Unless of course

someone dies

Or needs

to get married.

Other than Sunday

What could you possibly be doing

With all that time?

Now I am a real-life advertisement

For the walk-around/coaching approach

I do the exact same thing

On Sundays

Even on Sunday.

When people ask

This is what I do.