This is how I picture you.

You are a woman who wants to love God, your people, and you want to use what you've got to change the world.

But if you're like me, you also want to actually live to be awake, joyful, and energized enough to actually be present for your life. We are women who want to live as

daughters of God and human beings, not just workers who are constantly doing. On top of that,

we're fighting a culture of reactive defeat, one that assumes exhaustion is inevitable instead of fighting for rest.

We are surrounded by people who idolize busyness over a sustainable pace, and most of us are

used to being rewarded for pushing past our human boundaries and limitations.

If you're like me, you sometimes wonder

if you're so busy living life that you might be missing it.

I wonder if maybe sometimes your fatigue

is even louder than the voice of God.

And I wonder if sometimes it's just easier

for you to live on autopilot,

stuffing your emotions, your desires, your pain, even your joy.

You don't want to sleepwalk through life? I don't either. But who has time and energy to even know

what living fully awake would look like? So here's the thing. Jesus came to purchase abundant life for us. But is this it?

Did he mean for us to live exhausted and overwhelmed, burden with impossible expectations,

and heavy laden with shame? I know we want to live in awe of God to run on mission and joyful

surrender and not just

sleepwalk through our days.

If these are the questions you're asking, or if this sounds like your life, you're in the right

spot.

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