A Slow Burn
Like many of you, my story-- my overseas story-- is full of complicated layers of stress, hope, survival, endurance, and resolve. There are highs and lows. We get tired,...
Tag: burnout
There’s Hope After Burnout
“I feel like I have nothing to give.” I’ve scribbled these words in my journal in more than one season. The...
Burnout Came For Me
Burnout came for me about six years into living overseas. It grabbed me without any warning. Sure, we’d had family stresses, team changes, moves, a medical evacuation, changes in...
This Week’s Theme: Burnout
Burnout: a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands....
Waiting as Long as He Says
“God, the one and only—I’ll wait as long as he says. Everything I need comes from him. […] My help and glory are in God—granite-strength and safe-harbor-God—So trust him...
Admit It . . .
Ten months ago I felt a slight pain in my left shoulder. I ignored it as I figured with time it would eventually get better. It did improve over the...
Trust God Enough to Take a Day Off
I began learning about rest by not resting. There are countless reasons I could list for why we should rest, why we need to rest, how rest is beneficial, but...
Sleep in Peace
Worry, stress, struggles, pressures, sickness, fatigue, and the weight of overseas life affect us all in so many ways. Loss of sleep is possibly at the top...
Salt Flats
We live in the desert. Hot and dry, our part of West Africa is home to large areas of salt flats. The salt flats are natural, flat...
That One Time All the Power Ran Out Everywhere
If any time earned the title for a crisis, it was this one. The country’s petrol pumps had run...
