I sat in my mentor’s office struggling to find the right words. We talked of this and that till he surprised me with a question:
“How long have you felt burned out?”
Ummmm, 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 grace and hope if I keep returning to a weary place?
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 precise moment. Continue reading →