Read: Mark 6:30–32 Recently, while helping organize ministry work, I felt overwhelmed by how much there was to do. There were responsibilities to clarify, people to support, and plans to put on paper. Each conversation revealed more that needed attention. The work mattered, and it would take time. That experience brings me back to a question at the heart of Come to the Table: Lord, what have You actually entrusted to me? It is a question worth asking before our hands are full

I used to think joy was something you earned. That if you prayed hard enough, served enough people, said yes to enough needs, eventually God would hand you joy the way you'd hand a patient their discharge papers — a reward for having done everything right. It never did. What followed was exhaustion wearing the mask of faithfulness. It took a long time, and a fair amount of God gently taking things out of my hands, to understand what I'd gotten backward. Joy wasn't waiting at