I'm half-way through Wayne Cordeiro's new book Leading on Empty. It's a good read for pastors and church staff. He notes, "the busier we become the less time we have for activities that replenish us" (90). "You can get along for a while with 'more drain that fill,' but it will eventually catch up with you. It's like a car that someone drives for years without an oil change. You might squeeze twenty or thirty thousand miles out of it, but the neglct will come at the price of an engine that grinds to a stop."
His suggestion? Determine what fills you tank and what drains your tank and then be sure that you balance the two.
So, what drains you? What fills you up?
