I sat in my mentor’s office struggling to find the right words. We talked of this and that till he shocked me with a question:
“How long have you felt burned out?”
Me? Burned out? But, I just wrote a book about my HUGE burn-out story and how grace and Jesus changes all that! I can’t be burned out again. How can I possibly offer other people grace and hope if I can’t even figure this out myself?!
Not a single one of those words made it past my lips, though. Instead I teared up and said, “Since right after my book came out last fall.”
I hadn’t realized how tired I was until that exact moment. Continue reading →