The plates are falling all around...
A few weeks ago, I "hit bottom" with all my responsibilities and lack of time-management discipline. Since I'm working on having better time-management discipline this week, I'll be MIA online for most of it, so I thought I'd share a few posts I draft-wrote when I "hit bottom."
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Hitting Bottom - Part One
At the present moment, I am juggling WAY too many plates. They are literally in danger of all crashing to the floor at any moment. Between a double-load (actually more like triple-load) of classes this session, my online "ministry" commitments, church commitments, family responsibilities, and everything else, I need some serious time-management discipline to keep it all balanced - I don't have it right now.
Yesterday, I found myself at the point of mental exhaustion, ready to "call it quits" on the majority of the commitments I have at the moment. I became completely overwhelmed, and my kids were starting to feel the impact. I could feel myself going into breakdown mode. I had to stop, leave it all hanging in mid-air, and go to God.
Just as Jesus needed times of solitude with God {Mark 1.35}, so do I.
When I feel myself becoming exhausted - mentally, physically, or otherwise - I can easily find myself at a point of breaking down and causing damage to myself and/or others. It's at times like these that I have to step back, take it before God, and ask Him to guide me. If there are commitments He wants me to let go of, I need Him to show me. If He wants me to continue with all of it, I need Him to help me balance it all...
{Read the rest... Hitting Bottom - Part Two}
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What do you do when life overwhelms you?
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Labels: ashleypichea, Taking a Break
posted by Ashley Pichea @ 12:05 AM
3 Comments:
I usually cry. :)
But I cry to God.
I'll be praying for you!
Thank so much! I truly do appreciate the prayers!
I'm trying to cram a week's worth of work into two days so I can enjoy the holiday weekend with my family... so far so good, though it was a LONG day yesterday and today is looking to be the same. Will definitely be worth it, though... to have a stress-free weekend!
I put plates back on the shelf for someone else to take. In the last year I gave up being the director of a recovery home for women, gave up being the Toys for Tots Coordinator in my community, and quit church completely. Our whole family became to overwhelmed it was tearing us apart. We now fellowship in a small home and occasionally visit other churches. We just can't pick up every plate in the city..we just can't. It's ok to step back and anyone who tells me I can't 'quit' has a hole in their head. Holding up all those spinning plates makes us look rather silly. ;)
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