Life is Learning the Art of Balance...

We all have days when we feel like we are balancing on a tightrope.  I know I do.  Everything exists within that narrow margin of balance.  When you were a tiny baby, you had to learn to balance your head...else it would "fall off your shoulders!"  All through babyhood, there were many skills you would learn that revolved around balance.  Walking, climbing, learning to keep your peas on your spoon were some of the hardest ones to learn.  Oh my, no...I take that back...learning to ride a bike, stand up on ice skates, ski downhill, or turn that flawless pirouette were my hardest!

Lately, I have been confronted with some very interesting balancing acts.  When I first got married, oh so many years ago, I learned to balance a checkbook, balance my chores so that at the end of the day, every single one would be completed, and balance my time between my husband and myself.  As the children kept on coming, (I have 6), my time-balancing-act got crowded.  Some days I was successful, and some days I was not.

I learned that you balance your emotions through the "better or worse" experiences.  I learned that life can be just as happy during the "poorer" times as it is during the "richer" times.  I learned that there is a beautiful spiritual balance between those "sickness and health" challenges in our life.  Grateful am I for these experiences, because without them life would be shallow and empty.

Of late, I have been devastated with an emotional battle between depression and panic/anxiety attacks; and I am learning to balance not only my life and my actions, I am learning to balance my thoughts, as well.  Mental health is vital to learn how to battle the deep caverns we find ourselves stuck in sometimes...and when someone throws you a life-saving rope, do not hesitate to grab on as if your life depended upon it...because it does!

Life is the tightrope.  The pole you hold on to for dear life that gives you balance is the Word of God.  Gravity would pull you down off of the rope if you let it...don't let it.  It is that awful adversary who tells you, "You don't need balance in your life...no one does!  Just let it all go and 'fall!'"  I have heard his voice.  But the voice that tells me to hold on, take a deep breath, let God hold you steady is a stronger voice and the one I choose to listen to.  As long as I have breath in my body, I choose to hold on to the rod, stay balanced and reap whatever rewards are in store for me at the end of my journey.  I prat you will do the same.

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