I’ll Be Toast on Thursday! You?
December 22, 2008
Thursday is Christmas Day, and I am as excited about it as anyone gets. I remind our church all through the year how many days are left till Christmas.
One thing I’ve learned over the years though. When we do our Christmas Eve Celebrations on the actual night of Christmas Eve, I am almost worthless on Christmas Day.
You can deny it if you want, but it’s true for most of us in ministry leadership. It’s called Adrenal Letdown, and you can read a little more about it here. I’ve found it very freeing to be honest with myself and others about it. I fought it for too many years and wasted too much energy trying to figure out why I felt so funky the day after intense ministry and people time.
How do you deal with your adrenal letdown? What will you do with it on Christmas Day?
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Now the title of your post drew me in!!! Yes Yes Yes……pooped I will be! Yet the challenge is on to make it through a whole day of family fun and festivity starting at 5am or some awful hour. I hope we can pull it off without killing the kids lol.
Oh, but it is worth it isn’t it!!!
have a great Xmas, love your blog. It’s always encouraging and full of wisdom.
YES!! Definitely worth it! Thanks for stopping by PFL and for the encouragement!
I’ll be fine it’s my husband that I’m most definately worried about this Christmas. He stayed home to deal with the Christmas Eve service on Wednesday night and then he’s leaving at the crack of dawn to drive 6 hours to catch a flight that will get him to Whitehorse, Yukon where we (me and the kids) are. He should get here around midnight on Christmas Day and that’s only if there are no travel delays because of snow and pretty much the worst weather we’ve seen in a very long time. I have no idea what we were thinking when we planned our Christmas this year. I think the first few days of his “vacation” will be spent in a zombie like state. Crazy. We will not be doing this again:)
Our Eve service is pretty low key…Music…ten min message and candlelight service……We have it at midnight…..I loved Midnight Mass as a Catholic….
Then we go to IHOP after…..Awesome night…Sleep late on Christmas…
PS….I have adult kids…We all sleep late….