My life needs balance: brains, heart, and courage.
Like a three-legged stool when I lean into all three of them, they become pillars of strength to carry my physical, emotional, and spiritual weight through the tough moments of life.
If I don’t utilize one of the three or if I depend upon one or two more than the other one, my bucket tips and the contents of my life spill out onto the barnyard floor—and it’s getting harder and harder to get up from the floor.
Society sometimes tries to saw off one part of the triad, telling me a person of my gender, age, job, size, or other category shouldn’t do, feel, say, act, or be a certain way.
When I lean solely on my brain, it seems my heart and courage, behind the curtain, place blame upon my brain for my situation. Then my brain lists all of my screw ups, my faults, and my imperfections.
When I lean solely on my heart, I find my brain and courage mocking my compassion as wasted energy. My heart then aches, overflowing with sorrow and despair.
When I lean solely on my courage, my brain and my heart whisper it’s not enough. My courage then yells louder, vainly trying to command the moment.
It takes all three, working in harmony, depending upon each to play their part to live in the moment as God intended.
How do you find balance in your life?
Shalom, Paul
How do you find balance in your life?
