When It's Hard · Work & Purpose
Burnout & Exhaustion
For when you feel: burned out, running on empty, so tired, can't keep going
Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.
The MinuteHomily
You wake up tired, which is a strange way to begin a day that asks for more. The list grew overnight and the tank did not. Into that exact exhaustion Jesus speaks: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." He is speaking to the depleted, and what He offers sounds strange at first, a yoke. But a yoke is built for two, and His, He says, is "easy," a word that means well-fitted. Some of your load is truly yours; much of it is worry, performance, and other people's expectations stacked at a pace He never assigned. So come to Him before the list. Rest is not the reward for finishing everything. It is the gift He hands you at the door.
By the MinuteHomily editors
A prayer for this moment
Jesus, I'm heavy laden and I've been pulling alone. I take Your yoke instead of mine. Teach me Your pace, and give my soul the rest You promised. Amen.
“Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.”
St. Augustine
Hymns for this moment
“Come to Me” · Gregory Norbet
Matthew 11 set to music
“O Lord, Hear My Prayer” · Taizé
One small step
Cancel or hand off one thing this week, as an act of faith, not failure.
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