I have recently been re-elected to the District Church Council of my church (not a PCC as we are part of a team ministry), and also chosen again as secretary of this Council. So I have been landed again with the positions I laid down a year ago at the end of my maximum three year continuous time on the Council.

Fortunately our Council is not at all like this description of a committee, just sent to me by one of my fellow Council members:

Oh spare me some pity, I’m on a committee, which means that from morning to night
We attend and amend and contend and defend without a conclusion in sight.
We concur and confer, we defer and demur, and reiterate all of our thoughts,
We revise the agenda with lots of addenda and consider a load of reports.
We compose and propose, we suppose and oppose and the points of procedure are fun
But though various notions are brought up as motions, terribly little gets done.
We resolve and absolve but we NEVER dissolve, since it’s out of the question for us,
What an awful pity to end our committee – where else could we make such a fuss?

But perhaps I do need some pity for what I have taken on again – more minutes which take hours to write up!