by Chip Ingram (reposted)
You might be overworked, overwhelmed, and overcommitted if:
- You can’t remember the last time you took a nap without feeling guilty…
- You’ve bumped into someone at church and wanted to get together, but didn’t have room in your schedule for the next six months…
- Your family meals together consist of McDonald’s drive-through on the way to several activities during the week…
- You live from one “to-do list” to the next with the illusion that someday, in some way, things will slow down and then you’ll take that time to build relationships and serve God. But that someday never comes.
I used to live this way 30 years ago. Until one day, my doctor looked me in the eye and said, “Chip, you’re either going to die a young man, or you’re going to learn how to live very differently. You live at a pace and at a level that will kill you if you don’t change.”
Revitalizing Pastors 