I think I need a Kit Kat...

It is alarming how many advert jingles and ditties I remember from my childhood. I remember TV ads from 20 years ago for

air freshener (The Airoma ad with the guy with the big nose...),

for TV bars (rivers of milk, swirling with crispy rice and caramel, flowing into a giant chocolate waterfall!),

for bananas (you can do such a lot with bananas - you can peel them and eat them right away - you can peel them or slice them or dice them - so healthy every day...)

for coffee creamer (it's not inside, it's ohnnnnn-top)

Rascals candies (there's a rumble in the middle of the jungle... in the village of the sneaky rascals...)

And for Kit Kat (Have a break. Have a kit kat.)

Today I'm thinking about Kit Kats. I think I need a Kit Kat... or at least the break that goes with it. I have been so busy, so stressed, so anxious this past week... I realized last night that there have been few or no times this week during my waking hours that I have NOT been thinking about college ministry: things to do, people to call, people I'm concerned about, things to follow up on. I realize it's not healthy. I realize I'm assuming responsibility for things and situations which really are, even with my best efforts and 48 hours in a day, beyond my control. I realize today that I need to choose to leave things undone, to give myself a break, to "leave it to God in prayer".

And yet it so hard to rest! Funny how in times of stress I know that rest is the one thing I need, and yet it's the one thing I avoid. Anyone else have similar 'messiah-complex' issues?