Pushing Through When I'm Exhausted/It's Hard

From pregnancy fatigue to my toddler not sleeping well for two months to going through emotionally intense situations, I have experienced literal exhaustion at times and near exhaustion other times. All the examples I just mentioned have been happening back to back, with no breaks in between, for the past few months. I won't mention everything in here, but believe me when I say that I have felt like the walking dead for some time now. I have just recently begun to be able to do more here and there. When you are that tired, your mind and body don't function properly, making it nearly impossible to get anything done some days. Because of this, my relationship with God was becoming more and more non-existent as the days passed. I was not listening to Him or talking to Him like I was before, and I felt it. I felt it in every bit of my day and week. I wanted that relationship back, but I had no idea how to get back to that point because I was dozing off even in moments I shouldn't have been. Now, to some, this may be considered a legitimate excuse to not be opening my Bible every day and taking time to pray, but to me, that is a lie from the enemy. Because of my circumstances, I should have been leaning even more into God than I had been before to prevent walls from being built between me and Him. The way I set aside time to read His Word may have needed to look different due to the circumstances, but I should not have stopped altogether. Along with this, because 1 Thessalonians says to never stop praying, I know that setting aside time to journal my prayers or to simply pray out loud was not the only way to communicate with God. Praying is an all-day thing, just like if Jesus were in the same room as you all day long (by the way, God is with you all the time). What I mean by this is if someone is in the room with you for a few hours, you may not talk to them non-stop the entire time, but what you more than likely will do is talk to them about things randomly throughout the day - like one long conversation that never actually has an end to it. This is the same idea behind "pray without ceasing," in my opinion. I should have continued to pray continually as the Word says. Because I wasn't prioritizing my relationship with God the way I should have been and needed to, this caused my self-discipline to be thrown out the door completely. This post is about my struggle to push through when I am just THAT tired. I know some of you, if not all of you, can relate to me with this. It's hard. Incredibly hard. I'm not on here to preach to you or to give you a list of practical steps to take when you're exhausted. I am simply here to share my struggle and learning experience with this. I am still learning every day how to pull from God's strength and have the self-discipline needed to do all the things that He is calling me to do in my day to day life, but what I can advise you is to give yourself some grace, rest when you can, and "draw near to God because He will draw near to you" (James 4:8).

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