Emotional Exhaustion

My blog silence is not due to a lack of excitement around here, as always we rarely have a dull moment.  However, not all excitement is blog material.  Some things are too personal or too private to share.  We've been through a few difficult weeks.  Whenever a group of sinful human being try to work together there is bound to be some interpersonal conflict from time to time.  Well, the last few weeks we've had more than our share.  This can be very discouraging to deal with.  Some people handle conflict with grace and humility, others handle it with anger and hostility.  As directors of the organization, we've been busy mediating and encouraging resolution.  As always, there are many lessons to learn, about ourselves and about human nature.  These experiences, although unavoidable, are also painful and exhausting.  I'm also learning that stress often manifests itself in physical ways.  I have absolutely no energy these days.  None.  I get home, sit on the couch, and can't convince msyelf to do anything, not even things I usually enjoy like cleaning and organizing:) (I'm not joking) Even thinking of doing anything besides sitting in one spot with my feet up makes me feel tired.
It's times like these when I cling to scripture.  One passage has been very encouraging to me lately.
Psalm 27
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked advance against me to devour me,
it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall.
3 Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,  even then I will be confident.
4 One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.

Please pray that I may truly be able to live out these words.  That my heart will not fear, that I will be confident, that I will seek a dwelling in the house of the Lord, that I will gaze on His beauty and seek Him in His temple.