Are you fighting the right battles?
One of my life’s fears is to wake up close to the end of my life realizing that I wasted most of it fighting for what didn’t matter that much in the end.
Over and over, I learnt the hard way, how unless we choose to tear ourselves away from the culture of our world, busyness will forever be a badge of honor we wear, to our own suffering.
In 2020, after the worst series of burnouts in my life, I began to re-discover and study the importance of rest and withdrawal.
When Jesus called His disciples to “Come away with Me,” it was not at a convenient time. In fact, Emile Griffin says, “When there is no time to do it, that’s when you need to uncluttered the calendar and go apart to pray.”
From an epic, serial burnout-er through the pandemic, here’s distilling and sharing what I learnt in more recent times from #RuthHaleyBarton’s books, resources from @velvet_ashes and my own journey as a mother.
If you think there’s too much to do before the year closes, know this- you and your calling are worth far too much to be put at stake. There’s no better time to rest, recalibrate and be restored.
If we don’t come away, we will eventually come apart.