Exhausted Yet?

Is anyone feeling like I look in that picture. Well this blog will be short like last night. With school back in full swing for me I am exhausted. Between school, football, ecology club I get home around 6 do homework, eat, take a shower, write this, and then dry my hair brush my teeth and do all that jazz and by that time it is around 10. So I am TIRED. This leaves little time for me to do my quiet time and if you haven't realized I add a lot of lessons in my blogs. Well I figured out I can do my quiet time while writing this. Like I said I am exhausted by 10 and all I want to do is sleep. 

I recently went on a mission trip to Puerto Rico and this picture was captured on the way home by Rachel Jones, on our flight from San Juan to Charlotte. On this mission trip I figured out what true exhaustion was. By Wednesday I was physically and mentally exhausted. I felt like all I could do was sleep but every time I felt like stopping I would get a random burst of energy or something would happen that gave me energy. We built a fence and of course we are going to get tired because of digging and lifting. But the thing that kept me going was that I was helping someone that had never had someone do something like that for them. I kept thinking of that. Also Omberto would come and make jokes and dance and that would give me bursts of energy. This little boy named Gabby had a smile to light up a whole room and he was another source of energy. But our homeowner Gizelle worked just as hard as us so I didn't want her to see me slacking so I kept on. Our whole group did! I didn't hear one complaint the whole time! It was great! 

But at the end of the week with our free day and our 4 work days I ended up passing out asleep in the airport a hour before our plane left. I laid on the floor and slept and slept like a baby. Same way on the plane. But the cool thing was that I actually rested really well because I was tired from doing something great. So as I am tired and exhausted I remember I am getting one step closer to doing something great! What ever it may be I am getting one step closer though the exhaustion sweat, and pain. I want you to know that God is always there and when you are tired and feel like giving up just look to him and ask him to give you that extra energy to keep going! 

"Knock and the door will be opened, ask and you shall receive!" 

I challenge you to ask for help from God in you struggles and also in your good times! Thank him always! 

Have a great night/day! 

-charley