Valley of Burnout: Where do I go?

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Where do I go?

I don’t belong here anymore but I don’t know where I do belong. And I don’t know if I’m ready/able to try out new places to see if I belong there. I feel trapped because I know I have to bide my time, wait on God, ‘enjoy’ this space in time I’ve been given to rest, relax, heal…but it’s not often an enjoyable place to be.

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After 4 years of youth ministry, in October '04 I realised that I had completely burnt myself out. I went off work on sick leave with stress...this is my journey through that valley...

: Name: Debs Erwin; Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Youth Work Manager at Public Achievement, Northern Ireland, where I co-ordinate the Away from Violence programme.

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To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness, especially in the wilderness, you shall love him.
- Frederick Buechner

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
- Paul Tournier

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them.
- Charles West

We must cast off our false, exterior self like the cheap and showy garment that it is. We must find our real self in its very great and very simple dignity: created to be a child of God, and capable of loving with something of God's own sincerity.
- Thomas Merton

Everything difficult indicates something more than our theory of life yet embraces.
- George MacDonald