The daily post has challenged us,
A sanctuary is a place you can escape to, to catch your breath and remember who you are. Write about the place you go to when everything is a bit too much.
You can learn about other oases at
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/oasis/
It’s funny I live in a world of sanctuaries. A minister, after all, is never far from a church and every church has a sanctuary.
But for all that I would not say I find sanctuaries particularly peaceful places. Perhaps it is in the quiet of a church sanctuary that others find peace. But in these places I go to work. It’s in these locations I wage my war with the souls of men.
There are moments, for all that, when I find the sanctuary a quiet sanctuary. Early on a Sunday morning before anyone arrives for service, for instance (though that has to be pretty early) or late at night after everyone has gone home. But if I am going to speak of an oasis, a place of refreshing, a location of constant quiet and peace I would have to say that is my bedroom. I don’t work there. It’s my space and no one else’s. I can read. I can pray. I can recreate. Beyond that the world’s expectations do not encroach.
Lillie-Put 
As a congregant, I think there are many of us who forget that our pastors are human too and that they need a time to rest in His presence without interruptions.
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