please pardon the pity party for a moment - I need to whine.....

I'm beginning to realize I so desparately need that "break" you are talking about Dotsie. We have one of those Purpose Driven pastors who I swear feels its his purpose to drive us all into exhausation! He just keeps coming up with more ideas and things to do and there are precious few to do them. His heart's in the right place, but his workers have left the building. Add to that the heavy fundraising our church is doing right now for a new church, and some serious conflicts in the church and you have one stressful place.

So I guess my question is - how can I give back to God, and worship God without taking on too much? I believe in going to worship, I believe in serving God - so when I say, no I simply can not take on one more thing, am I being selfish?

I know - I need to be more serious in prayer and ask God where he wants me to serve. And then, I need to listen and do that.

How do we know what we are being asked to do is what God's wants of us, and not someone else's agenda???

Sorry, as you can probably tell I have too much on my plate right now and I just got asked to take on something else, and I kinda blew