Do you make time in your life for everything that is important to you? Notice I said MAKE not HAVE – because we all have exactly the same amount of hours in a day and days in a year. It’s how we choose to use them that makes the difference.
Today our topic, the Quality of God that we are focusing on is BALANCE. Some people think they are in balance when they feel like they have everything in CONTROL in their lives. Or for those of you who are LIBRA’s, it’s a constant desire to weigh and measure things to be certain they are coming out just right. That kind of balance reminds me of being on a teeter-totter when I was young. When you and the other person were exactly even, it actually was NO FUN!
There is a difference between “spiritual balance” and what can be called a “balancing act.” One comes from God’s work within us to bring order and priority to our lives. The other relies on outside resources to organize our time and tasks. In seeking to achieve balance in our lives, it is important to understand the difference. A balancing act is an outward attempt to meet the demand of the many responsibilities of our lives. We think that in order to achieve balance, we need to Focus on organizing
tasks, time and responsibilities, becoming more organized, developing better time management skills. The results of this type of effort are helpful but have limited impact. The balance we need and desire. Spiritual Balance is something that comes from God and something we get to experience more as we seek to know God more intimately. Balance as a Quality of God focuses on being rather than doing and reflects God’s priority for our lives. Spiritual balance is achieved as we vigilantly make knowing
and trusting God the priority of our lives each day.
Balance, as a quality of God, then, is not about having it all together, or having nothing ruffled in your inner or outer being. That’s a nice goal in life, but remember we aren’t talking about things we have to work towards here, but things we need to uncover because they are our natural tendencies. The Qualities of God are our inheritance. It is who we are at core and who we something forget.
I like to think of Balance as the blending of seeming opposites in life. In God, and focusing on God as a priority in life, we discover that there are no opposites; there is no duality. Yet, in our experience, we see things that way all the time. In our lives, for example, we label our experiences as UPS and DOWNS and most of us want to spend most of our time feeling UP!
I once had a very wise lawyer who told me that I could expect my business and my life to be like a roller coaster – it’s got it’s ups and downs. Actually, the down part of the roller coaster ride is the most exhilarating IF we learn to relax into it.
Most of us would like to have life be a series of wonderful events one after another, with NOTHING happening that upsets or disturbs us in any way. I’ve come to see that the upsets in my life, are the greatest vehicle to my spiritual growth. The foundress of my former religious community, Mother Mary Veronica used to say, “The best growing days are the days the sun does not shine.”
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