Filling Our Lives with What Matters
I've been thinking a lot lately about why so many people seem exhausted. Not just physically tired, but soul tired. The kind of weariness that sleep doesn't seem to fix. It feels as though we're constantly moving, constantly checking something off a list, constantly responding to another notification, another email, another obligation. We tell ourselves that once we get through this week or finish this project, life will slow down. Then another week arrives, another project takes its place, and somehow we're just as weary as we were before. I don't think all of that exhaustion comes from simply doing too much. Sometimes life genuinely asks us to carry heavy things. I know that from experience. Caring for Tim over the past couple of years wasn't something I could simply remove from my calendar. There were doctor's appointments, therapy sessions, disability paperwork, insurance companies, medications, and countless responsibilities that became part of our eve...