Balance is my issue. I’m not the only one, but I am certain it’s my issue. The challenge of learning how to work and play, build the dream and address the right now, possess a vision and to see the present; is the test of my life.
I was wondering this week, “Why is this lesson so important?” And this is what I discovered:
If I don’t learn to balance my life in pain, then I can’t trust myself to balance my life in pleasure. What I mean by this is, despite my work load and my dedication to what I do, I am finally learning when to rest and to laugh and to take a lunch and to change my scenery and to find the joy in the simple things now in the midst of the hard days. Why? because like my spirit, my soul and my body can reach a place daily where they need to be renewed with a nap or a free moment with no expectations and no work or a good honest laugh or a great dance or a day away or daily escapes inside the creative process (make a collage, write a poem, rearrange a song . . .). And then go back to work.
I find that if I give too much of myself away, then I become off centered and overwhelmed with one sided emotions; and I have less to give as the days go by. Anthony Robbins touches on this. He believes that we can organize all of our lives into categories. And when we find ourselves out of wack then it usually means that we have neglected some part of us. In other words, we’ve been spending too much time on the business development and not enough on the spirit that lives in this body of ours or we have been working double time on mastering our money but haven’t been addressing our creative side (for me it’s writing). And for one more example, it’s like spending a tremendous amount of time on keeping the house looking great but not enough on the family that lives in the house (so our relationships suffer).
Whatever it is, balance requires that we don’t get stuck in one place or another. Every time I loose my balance the kickboxing coach at the gym yells, “stay light on our feet, don’t get stuck in one position, that’s how you get knocked down.” He yelled it so much on Tuesday that I want to say it to you, “…lay aside every weight and the pain (because sin is a pain, sooner or later) which clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us (Heb. 12:1).” In other words, don’t get stuck. Keep running the race and the landscape of our lives will change.
The picture above is a black and white of a coffee shop that I go to from time to time for a scenery change. A strong cup of peppermint later and I am ready to save the world for another hour or two (hey, at least I’m in motion). P.S. my computer is well again
-MizJAI-
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I was talking to my sister about this and she said, “somebody put it well ‘the flesh is just into excess.’”