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Spiritual Depletion

              Spiritual depletion is an epidemic that most people aren’t even aware they are suffering.  The way I recognized it in myself after this succession of events—one mission trip detoured by an extra 31 hours of airport crazies, back to back with another international travel with its own insane story, home for a few days, catching a nasty cold, and a wonderful weekend with a purposefully planned, unrelenting schedule that ended in a 1-hour traffic jam—equaled spiritual depletion for me.  I would not have even known it was spiritual depletion except that I was scheduled to teach a Bible study lesson that was titled: Spiritual Depletion .  I think I would have labeled it: you are not handling life’s demands very well.                However, it does have a real name, and I’m not alone in suffering from it.  I am reminded o...