Spent Syndrome?

My sweet Daddy has had yet another cardiac "adventure" this past week which required him to be hospitalized and left my mother and I, at times, sitting and waiting, and waiting and waiting (you get the picture) while Daddy endured testing, poking, prodding and examining. During one of these "waitings" I picked up magazine geared toward us 40-something "girls" and read an interesting article about "Spent Syndrome." According to the article, this is what happens when women have been so busy tending (albeit joyfully) to so many things, we're just spent - physically, emotionally and spiritually. We're tired, out of sorts, the digestive system is in an uprising and a lot of times, this "spent syndrome" is accompanied by perimenopausal or menopausal "issues." Oh. Joy. WHERE did I sign up for this and who do I smack????!!! This was not in the contract that I signed for wife, mother, daughter, friend and employee -- Not, not, not!!! A dear girlfriend in God and I were e-mailing and she shared with me the scripture from Isaiah, chapter 40 which says

28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?

The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth,

Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

29 He gives power to the weak,

And to those who have no might He increases strength.

30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,

And the young men shall utterly fall,

31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength;

They shall mount up with wings like eagles,

They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

WHOA - news flash!! I don't have to succumb to "spent syndrome!" Life and all that comes with it will attempt to drain us of our physical resources but the Promise of God's Word is True!! God does not faint! God is not weary and HIS understanding is unsearchable. He will give power to us girls (and guys) who get tired, He WILL renew our strength. He will restore us and keep us from running out of steam!! Oh, my dear friends, how much I appreciate that God is all I need to keep me going, doing as HE would have me do. Yeah, I get tired - we all do, but I'm not "spent" . . . God said so! Loving you, with His love and praying that because of HIS marvelous power to restore, all I do will be For His Glory! AA