Ever consider that you may just be soul weary? I say this, because life can wear us down. “Adulting” is hard. Young people don’t necessarily feel this soul weariness, but give a few years, a few laps around the block and one can start to feel thin on the edges, a little fragile, close to breaking point. Soul weariness is a reality in our lives.
Often we look at ourselves in the mirror and ask: “How did I get so tired?” How did all this weariness set in? Here are a few ideas on how soul weariness sets in:
- You have faced big challenges, which are like rivers that one must cross. Some challenges of life hang around for years and you have to learn to live with them for a long time. Or big projects, where the initial excitement has long gone and now little problems have come up, or even big problems where the end of the project is a long way off. The weariness sets in and people start talking like “God is not in this anymore.” And you start…
