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In Reply to: burn-out syndrome posted by tigress on March 24, 2004 at 00:40:23:
I came out of the Fam running, but somehow, in the back on my mind, my commitment to put my life back together, to serve the Lord, and to save the world had failed. I may have now been out, but I was now down and out. My wife was carrying her own horrendous grief, my kids were entering their teens, oh boy, and I was broker than a skunk. It took 8 years for me to burn out completely, and then another two to find resolution, which I did when I came to the boards here. In doing that, I was able to let the Fam commitment go and make some new ones, meaning: help Fran get through her grief, bale myself out of the debt that I had encurred while dealing with mine, learn to re-engage and be there for my kids, make it safe for them to succeed (and fail) while in my care, be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord rather than dwell in the tents of wickedness, etc..... It has been all onward and upward ever since.
