Exhaustion

At our weekly staffing meeting we had all the usual suspects. The baker. The birthday gal. The jokester. You know the usual folks including the new guy, Mike. But there was an addition to our table discussion on Wednesday morning.

In between the dark circles, yawns, sighs, and slap-happy jokes the presence of Fatigue became known. Usually Fatigue doesn't appear at our staffing meetings until the 2nd week of Advent or the sixth week of Lent. Every now and then he arrives when I am finishing up the Confirmation class with Andrew.

For some reason or another he showed up this week. Everyone around the table looked and talked about being wiped out, tired, exhausted and way to busy both in their ministry and in their personal lives.

Made me wish for summer break.

sigh.

This isn't good, I thought. We haven't even gotten to the Women's Retreat or the Fish Fry or even Charge Conference...and the staff are propping up their heads on their hands.

Do you think if we spike our Holy Communion juice with some Red Bull we can make it until Fall Break?