You are listening to Made for this. This is Jenny Allen and this week we are talking about

Empathetic versus apathetic and in the tensions that we are facing today this is such an

important topic in fact I believe this podcast is for me and I'm going to teach it for myself and I hope it

blesses you too. Let's go. So the big question that I want to answer on this episode and it's a big question I'm asking myself so I was actually excited to get to dig into this and think through this and study this because I think we're all exhausted.

I just think that's a universal feeling right now.

You're probably listening to this whole season on being a healthier individual because you're in that place of

unhealth you're in that place of exhaustion possibly burn out and the big

question I want to answer in this episode is this how do we stay tender

when we're fatigued and hurt and broken. How do we do that? And when all that brokenness is

around us, what does it look like to stay tender to still care about people to listen and have empathy rather than just

check out. I think the tendency and desire and temptation to check out right now is at an all-time high as far as how many of us feel that way

and how intense that feeling is. So we are not alone in that. You are not alone in that.

I just listen to a podcast that John Eldridge did, will link to it on desolation.

And just how desolation right now is what everyone's experiencing, just that there is an ache and a sense that, you know, almost like a death of things, just a death of the way things were and a death of how to move forward and an exhaustion that just covers everything we do that our brains don't even work the same right how many of you feel like there's a brain fog that you've had since quarantine where it just feels like it's really hard to get back to the pace and the

fullness of thought that you used to have. You know I forget things more than I've ever forgotten things.

I was just yesterday I was walking through a towel store

we're remodeling something and I had to pick out tile and I mean I couldn't

remember what I was even doing like I was just walking around going

wait what am I supposed to be doing and what decision do I need to make here to get out of here.

It just it was just this wandering feeling that I was living in the title, a gigantic tile store.

And I just think we're all in that place of what am I supposed to be doing again?

What where are we? What's the point?

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