Kathy was my spiritual director for about eight years. This means she endured A LOT because she dealt with ME. 
Kathy passed away from Alzheimer's in January 2022. Her illness took her away too early from many who benefitted from her wisdom and wit. Here I'm sharing some of Kathy's best pieces of wisdom as a tribute to her. 
Her influence on the ministry I am called to is profound. For one, I have a spiritual director bent that impacts how I coach others.  I hope you find some treasures in this podcast that will be sustaining. 



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Margie: 0:01



Hey there, Margie Bryce here bringing you the Crabby Pastor podcast, and I don't think you're going to be too surprised to know that it's too easy today to become the Crabby Pastor. Our time together will give you food for thought to help you be the ministry leader, fully surrendered to God's purposes and living into whatever it takes to get you there and keep you there. So we're talking about sustainability in ministry In this episode of the Krabby Pastor podcast. I am going to take a moment of personal privilege to pay tribute to Kathy Rakowski. She was a spiritual director that I had for about eight years and I wanted to take a moment to pay tribute to her as I recently learned that she passed away, and I want to say some things about spiritual directors and the kind of gift that she was to me, and I have not found anyone like her as of yet, so that makes her even more special.Margie: 1:20



I got a spiritual director because I kept having these classes that talked about the pastor as a person and you needed to have others walk with you and journey with you. For some, that means an accountability group, for some that means a coach, and I had a coach. I was at the time, leading a merger of four and a half churches. But Kathy came alongside me even earlier than that. I was working through my doctoral degree and that's when I had another class that said you better get other people around you. And I had tried before and it really bombed out and I griped at God about that. That's maybe why I call myself a little crabby at times. I was crabby to God about this. That here you go, here's my assignment. I'm attempting to fulfill this assignment and I can't seem to find others who would sit with me, walk with me. So I decided I would look into a retreat and I found this retreat center that a friend had recommended to me and I saw a link on there for spiritual directors and I thought, well, I will give this a go, I will see what happens here.Margie: 2:35



In my opinion, I really did need a reality check from a spiritual perspective, someone else's point of view. You know I don't trust myself totally all the time. To be honest with myself, all the time I think I'm pretty brutal to myself really and can be a little uncompassionate. That's true, that's true. But I was really hoping to find someone who would be honest with me. I really needed that, and so she was that for me.Margie: 3:09



We met monthly for like eight years eight years, you know, when I first got connected to Jesuit House where I sought after the spiritual director, I had to interview like three and so I interviewed Kathy first and she was this fun and bubbly neither of which, I would necessarily say, are my top two qualities here but she was fun and bubbly and she was a charismatic Catholic and I have Catholic roots, catholic and I have Catholic roots, I have friends with charismatic expressions and I just like the Holy Spirit part of that. And so I went ahead and interviewed to other people anyway, even though I kind of knew, you know, as Kathy would say, you know when you need to know. So I'm taking this time to just reflect on the gift that someone else can be in your life. I can go on and on about how you ought not to do this alone, and that's true. That's true. We need to recognize and fully embrace th

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