Are you fatigued? I am! What do we do now?
(I was going to make this into a video for you all, but today is not the day - it would have been SO long! I promise the whole article isn't a downer, but let's go into the pit and acknowledge it for what it is, then turn our face to the source of our hope! ) Crisis fatigue, combat fatigue, compassion fatigue, ________ fatigue, etc... Whatever name you want to put on it, it is a very real thing and MANY of us are sitting in this space. I want to tell you this: WHERE YOU ARE IS REAL, AND YOU NEED TO PAY [SOME] ATTENTION TO IT! Fatigue: weariness from bodily or mental exertion. Anyone else in this space? 14 weeks ago we were introduced, quite violently ( definition: intense in force ) to what I "lovingly" referred to as The Rona. Life as we knew it ceased. We were working from home - if we still had a job; we couldn't leave home. Our churches were closed, and folks bought ALL the toilet paper! We had an "unseen enemy" that seemed like it wanted to kil