Been There Done That

“It is so much easier to write about where I’ve been and what I’ve overcome rather than were I’m at and what I’ve yet to figure out.”  I read that quote tonight and it sparked this emotion in me that is difficult to explain.  The truth is I am tired.  Physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually tired.

I’ve been here before and you probably have as well.  Sometimes they each hit at different times and other times they just hit you all at once.  It’s the “I don’t feel like getting out of bed and facing the world” feeling.  Can you relate to that?  When you get there what do you do?  You try to overcome it, man up, power through it and pretend that you are not struggling.  I’ve been there and done that and have found that it is not healthy.  You can only run, pretend and fake so long until it catches up to you.

I am having a hard time putting my emotions to words and I am having a hard time seeing an end in sight.  The best word that I can come up with to describe this emotion is DEFLATED.  The Christian thing to do is pray more, read my bible more, journal more, fast more but at the end of the day I feel like I’m just doing more.  I don’t feel like I am in  a dark place by any means but I’m just tired.  I think we can all relate to some of those feelings.  I’ve learned to talk about it is the healthiest way to overcome it.

So my question for you is have you been there before?  What have you done to get through it?

Are You Funky

Do you ever go through a funk?  I don’t even know how to describe it to you but you know when your going through it.  Some funks last longer than others.  Some funks hit during different seasons of life.

• Sometimes it will hit you spiritually even though things may appear to you that they are going well.  Maybe it’s the fact that your in God’s Word but nothing seems to be speaking to you in a fresh way and that doubt creeps into your mind if your really even in God’s will because why can’t you hear Him.
• Sometimes it will hit you physically where you have no desire to do anything.  The things that excited you yesterday don’t seem to today.  You start to look critically at yourself and totally disregard the fact that you were created in God’s image.
• Sometimes it will hit you emotionally where even a kitten makes you want to cry.  The littlest commercial or song or picture puts you on the verge of tears and you have no way to explain or describe it.   Mentally your exhausted and wonder if you can take anymore? You know that God is your provider and your strength but it sometimes just doesn’t feel that way.
• Sometimes it will hit you relationally where you don’t feel like you connect with anyone.  Your alone.  You wonder who you can talk to?  Would anybody even want to listen?  Yes you can once again turn to God but as it was spiritually you wonder if He is even listening?

So, do you ever feel that way?  How do you get out of that?  How do you get out of the “funk” that is in your life?