With honesty and hope, Claire
You are not failing at faith. You are exhausted. A 5-day journey through burnout, spiritual dryness, and the God who does not demand your productivity.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
Isaiah 40:31If you are reading this, you are probably tired. Not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. The kind that sits in your chest and makes you wonder if you have lost something you cannot name. Your prayer life feels hollow. Your Bible sits unopened. The things that used to light you up now feel like obligations. And underneath it all is a quiet shame: I should not feel this way. I should have more faith. I should be further along.
This series is not going to tell you to pray more. It is not going to give you a five-step plan to reignite your passion. It is going to sit with you in the dry season and tell you the truth: God is not angry with you. He is not disappointed. He is not keeping a list of the days you skipped devotionals. He is right here. And He is not going anywhere.
Burnout is not a spiritual problem. It is a human one. And the church has made it worse by treating it like a sin. The silence of God is not the absence of God. Elijah heard it. David wrote about it. Jesus lived it. You are in the best company there is. Sabbath is not a suggestion. It is a survival strategy. God rested on the seventh day not because He was tired. Because He was showing us how to stay human.
With honesty and hope, Claire
With honesty and hope, Claire