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There is a particular kind of exhaustion that belongs to people who are genuinely gifted.

Not the exhaustion of someone struggling to keep up. But the exhaustion of someone who keeps getting asked — because they are capable, because they show up, because the joy they carry makes people want them in the room.

And so the invitations keep coming. The boards. The committees. The volunteer roles. The ministry assignments. The professional responsibilities. Until the weight of everything feels less like purpose and more like pressure.

In this new episode of Just Nona, I am answering a heart question from a listener named Genile, who carries joy as a God-given gift — and has found that the very gift that draws people to her has also drawn her into more responsibility than feels sustainable. She is asking the question so many gifted, called, loving people carry quietly: how do you balance all of it without letting any of the pieces fall to the wayside?

This is a real conversation about calling, capacity, and the difference between what God assigned and what we accumulated. You are not called to carry everything. You are called to carry what is specifically yours. And the most faithful thing you can do is not say yes to everything — it is say yes to the right things.