Take your time & read the following from Parker Palmer. This is good wisdom to live into during a season that so often subsumes us with busyness, exhaustion, and isolation from God's presence.
"Separation is the starting point for many of us, a stage in which we feel forced to make a choice between contemplative and active life. Because our culture tends to value action over contemplation, we often begin by choosing a life of activity that can become frantic, that exhausts and fragments our souls.
When exhaustion overcomes us, and we are too drained to keep up the pace, we move into the stage of alternation, which might be called the vacation approach to life. Exhausted by activity, we take a little vacation to refresh ourselves, then we plunge back into action until we are exhausted again, then we take another vacation until we renew the energy to wear ourselves down once more - and on the cycle goes.
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