Out of My Element

One thing I've noticed is how drained I have been lately. Everything will be going perfectly fine, but suddenly I feel the need to sleep. Not just that I feel tired, but I'm hit in an instant and I need a place to lay down and sleep. Unfortunately, I don't usually get to humor this desire and I get a little dizzy.

I'm pretty sure the reason I've been hit with this is because I am always around a lot of people. I'm not a big party person. I like an occasional get-together with a few people, but being hit almost every day with a fellowship of ten or more people really takes a toll on me. I'm much more of a one-on-one kind of guy. Tonight was really fun, but it was hard on me. We had a "community group" which is basically a get-together of Christians from the area. There were a lot of the teachers from Highlands school and some people from my church. There were about thirty people total. It was very structured. The guy leading the whole thing was very much a fan of structure and season. Because this is the time between Pentecost and advent, he was a little uninspired because this is the time that ordinary church life happens. It was still pretty cool though. We had a strict outline, almost word-for-word, of how the get-together would be done with lyrics to all the songs, call and response time, prewritten prayer, and a time to break into small groups. It was very traditional, but it wasn't bad. I had a good time, yet I still wanted to fall asleep in the middle of it.