What do I do when I'm burned out and my own faith is wavering?

You carry a whole congregation's grief, and you are running on empty, and underneath it, quietly, your own faith has started to waver. That may be the loneliest place a person in your role can stand. You are supposed to be the steady one, and admitting the ground feels shaky under you can feel forbidden. But it is more common and more human than you have been allowed to believe. Burnout and doubt often travel together. When you are this depleted, everything feels thinner, including faith. Sometimes what looks like a crisis of belief is really a crisis of exhaustion wearing belief's clothes. That does not make your questions fake, but it does mean rest might clear more than you expect. You have been pouring out for everyone and refilling from nowhere. No well survives that. You are allowed to be a person who needs care, not only the one who gives it. Find someone outside your congregation, a spiritual director, a counselor, a trusted peer, with whom you do not have to hold it together. One step: this week, tell one safe person the honest truth about where you are. Carrying both the grief and the doubt in total silence is the heaviest way to carry them, and you were never meant to.