TORONTO, ON.
When I have to do anything along the lines of leading a worship or giving a talk, or just knowing that there is something to work on later, it usual occupies my mind while I work and commute. This was true for better part of this week. With having an RLR to prepare for as both part of secretariat and being a session leader, and seeing that I would be working nine hour days all the way up until the event itself, I already knew this was going to be a long week.
As the tiredness, caffeine and stress began to pile on there came I point when I was just burnt out from exhaustion. Even now, when I consider myself “done” with the week, I find myself struggling to finish this post. I laugh at myself now, because the session I was leading was about this very struggle I went through. Getting to a point where we are so worn out to the point where we can’t do anything, when we say “I can’t do it”, that God says “Let me”. I began this week and looked at my calendar, seeing how full it was and how much work I would have to do, while this whole time I was working on a session God was giving me the answer in my own life.
If there is anything I have learned from this week, and something I want to do moving on, is to pause and look around, not only when at times of rest when I am most at ease, but at times when it feels most chaotic. We are blessed to be living in the very moment in the we are. We don’t have to worry about the past because God already took care of it, the future we entrust in God, but here in the present, the Lord is actively working before our eyes. We become so preoccupied with what we have to do, that we forget to see what God has already done.
— Philip Isidro