I preached at our church Sunday morning—it was my first Sunday on the platform after being away for a month. “We could totally tell you were fresh and ready to get back,” somebody said to me that morning. And they were right.
Soon after I started here, our elders instituted this annual break. “If you’re going to be in this ministry for the long haul, you can’t do 50 weeks a year, even 40,” they told me. “You need time to be alone, to rest, to be with your family.”
I’m so thankful for their wisdom.
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