Have you ever hit a point of burn out or maybe you been on the brink of it and can sense that there is to much going on all around. I know all to well how this feels.
I have recently hit a period of burn out. Doing to much. Burning the candle at both ends. Allowing myself to be navigated by my own drivenness. Busyness is a drug and one I know all to well.
So my journey once again has brought me to a place of reflection and soul searching.
Why?
Why does drivenness and busyness matter to me? Or what am I masking with the drug of busyness?
These are questions I have been wrestling with for a few weeks now.
I am going to write over the next few blogs concerning some things I have learned in this soul searching time.
None of what I have learned is new. It is all stuff I know of, but now the Spirit is calling me into a deeper relationship. A pathway of intimacy, a trail that leads to really knowing God, not just knowing about him. But this is our journey isn't it. A constant coming alive again and again. Our mind being renewed in the new life. So there is no shame at this point of the journey but there is much to gain from intimacy with God. Jesus said in the book of John that eternal life is knowing God.
So the first thing that I have realized about burnout is that I lost my perspective. Now planting a church is not the easiest thing in the world to do. So on one hand there is a lot to get done but on the other hand their needs to be a leadership team implemented to help carry the load. So I am working on equipping leadership team so that together we can help people move from darkness to light. We have a great team at The Grove! I am working on clarifying the vision and improving our serve.
So in all the busyness, whether you are planting a church, raising a family, running a business, ect.. We all can get carried away and lose our perspective. Lose the very sense of connection and conviction that fuels us.
Coming up in the next few blogs I will be writing about the powerful transformation I am experiencing as I have regained my perspective and some of the built in defaults that God has established in order for us to keep it.
I look forward to connecting and the possible conversation this might spark.
Brian
