What is it like being a pastor or a pastor’s wife?

What is it like to walk in your pastors’ shoes? Does being your pastor bring them joy? Or does it make them groan? Hebrews 13:17 (ESV) says, “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.” A few years ago, I contacted several pastors and their wives to learn about their joys and “groanings” and ask how their