by Sandra Adcock | Emotional Burnout, Mission Burnout, Post Traumatic Hope, Relationship Burnout
Burnout isn’t an academic exercise. It’s an all-consuming, systemic condiiton. It’s your entire body sending you one clear message – something has to change, and it has to change now.” Meredith Grey from an episode of Grey’s...
by Sandra Adcock | Emotional Burnout
Silence and solitude. Ugh. At least, that’s how I used to feel. But not anymore. These days, times of silence and solitude with God bring to mind lyrics from Lauren Daigle’s song Love Like This… When I am a wasteland, You are the water. When I am the...
by Sandra Adcock | Emotional Burnout
Where does this day find you, friend? With a heavy heart? If you need some encouragement, here’s a morning prayer just for you… A Father Like No Other My dearest Father, thank you that I can come to you just as I am. Nothing to tidy up. No pretense. No...
by Sandra Adcock | Emotional Burnout, Post Traumatic Hope
The litany of suffering in our world can seriously jack with our concept of God. And although we would hate to admit it, sometimes we wonder, Does God even care? Our Concept of God Matters Trauma, pain, abuse, rejection, betrayal, brokenness, disease… Such...
by Sandra Adcock | Emotional Burnout
What’s a thought loop, you ask? And why do they matter? Let’s drink in some insight from one of my all-time favorite children’s books… I’m a pout-pout fish, with a pout-pout face, so I spread the dreary-wearies all over the place.”...
by Sandra Adcock | Emotional Burnout
Larry Dale and I are lake dwellers. Our home is a cozy cottage on the bank of Lake Lewisville. Which means lots of early-morning water skiers. One morning, as I sipped hot lemon water while enjoying the daybreak enthusiast, I realized, Jesus is like a great ski boat!...