For me it comes and goes... an overwhelming sense of hopelessness seems to creep up on me, and I have to fight through it.
Yes, Jesus is my source of hope. But I am human. I have a need to stay informed, and yet it wrecks me often, due to the evil I discover.
Even knowing that Jesus has won, that we have won, that we are winnning... these are such "far away" concepts in the face of the ugliness that we see unveiled every day.
So much energy goes into keeping a grasp on all that is happening, so as to be able to red-pill others and to protect my family. That's how I am wired. Can't help it.
So I find my balance this way: I try to limit my time here (rather than just an all day constant presence), and I pray for wisdom and strength. I also choose to live as an example of goodness (and I am not perfect!). These things keep me sane.
I wrote this because I assume many struggle with this balance... and I just wanted to encourage everyone to hang in there, and take a moment to acknowledge the challenge and to strategize about how best to maintain the balance for yourself.
If we are not mentally, emotionally, and spiritually strong when the shit really blows up, then we will not be the shepherds I believe God is calling us to be.
I'm with you, goes up and down... have to constantly fight off depression, my faith in God is paramount in this fighting off.
I find that intense physical exercise really helps though heh
My son has that gift... the ability to exercise. I have to be doing something, like building something or playing in a baseball game. Keep it up!
Eh, wouldn't call it a gift really, unless it's because of an actual physical impediment, anyone can do it.
The hardest part is to get going, once you make an habit out of it you feel bad if you don't workout for more than a week, it's weird.
Don't need to be anything fancy either, just pump out like 50 burpees a day to start, 5 days a week, soon you'll be doing like 300 no problem.
50 burpees to start sounds terrible :-)
I was thinking the same thing! Maybe 3
Ah no, it's very manageable, it all depends on the cadence of course
set it up like 10 burpees, then 60-120 seconds rest then 10 more and so on, you'll be done in like 10 minutes, it's all about structuring that rest, but you definitely don't want to go for more than 2 minutes rest.
Then after a week doing that you start shooting for 100, then later you decrease the amount of rest between rounds, then you shoot for 150 and so on.