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Recovery from a severe burn out

“For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.” (2 Cor 4:5)

I was doing for over 30 years all kind of leadership tasks in the church of Jesus, when a concurrence of events led to a complete mental crash. I entered unexpectedly and unwantedly a period of burn-out that would last several years.

I was relieved of my job as fulltime pastor and I was obliged to stop my involvement in Christian Flanders. I did not preach anywhere for over a year, although I had been doing this for years throughout the whole of Flanders. I even felt written off by God and fellow human beings. The civil society declared that I was incapable to work.

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God is with me, I shall not fear

Immediately I panicked, I could never do this on my own.

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Bronchitis was a phenomenon Josée was very familiar with... a few times a year she had to contend with it and then she had to stay inside for quite a time and to take medication. As a child already she was troubled by it...she often coughed yellow lumps and she drank quite some cough mixture in the course of her life. Having a phone call with Ann she told that she invariably used to have a bronchitis in the period between Shrovetide and Easter.

Pronouncing this, she realised it was not a good pronunciation. Together with Ann she broke these words and she picked up that Jesus wanted her to be healthy, also between Shrovetide and Easter. This happened quite some time before Easter 2007. Since then she has not had a bronchitis any more. In the beginning of November she did get a cold but this time it did not develop further into a bronchitis... very quick she was completely recovered again!
In 1996 she went through a TIA (transient ischemic attack). It started with a painful, sleepy foot and went up to her leg and arm and the corner of her mouth was weird. She was thinking all the time she would not become 60. Also this thought she let go with the Lord. In the meantime Josée is almost 72 but a lot healthier than before she became a Christian. She is living alone but she does everything with Jesus. She also talks about everything with Him. At the moment she is making and installing a new kitchen by herself. For this she had to make a hole for a passage in a 17 cm thick wall. Recently, when coals were delivered for her stove and she could not get help right away, she herself took 95 coal-sacks of 25 kg each in a wheelbarrow to the back of the house... Where again it is written "in old age, they will stay fresh and green..." For also Moses only really started his ministry when he was 80... At the 25 year jubilee of Hugo and Inger last summer she blessed them with at least another 25 years... they accepted this but they added to it they expected Josée to be there then with them too... and she is very willing to! She is grateful for every year she receives from the Lord and is transforming her little house in order to keep on living in it a long time...

 

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