Running on empty

This shows up precisely what worries me about too much of the church in the west and is execerbated by the psychology engendered by falling numbers and resources.
"Most painfully of all I learnt that I needed to care for myself and to be a whole lot more healthily self-focussed. I’d grown up thinking self-care was selfish. What I discovered in the last few months before leaving was that I had long been running on “empty” when it came to church; the ripples of that emptiness, tiredness, disappointment and marginalisation etc. had an incredibly negative impact on me, one that was far wider than church. I suffered, my marriage suffered, and my family suffered."
Paul, my understanding goes with you and I will hold you in my heart when I consciously recognise myself before God.
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