Balance is a myth.
Life ends up being a seesaw where we don’t have full control the weights on either end. No matter how fast we run to “remove weight from one side” or “add weight to the other” the weights change, and thus the seesaw leans more to one side.
You are always somewhere on a continuum. You can control
- How much time you spend with family
- How many hours you are working (you can say “no”)
- How many times you are out of the house
- How many times you are out late
There are seasons where there has to be prolonged imbalance where the seesaw stays leaning towards one side. Such is life. Grace should be given during those seasons as best as possible.
However, a season has an end.
And sometimes life needs to be jostled a bit with some hard truths to force a season to come to an end.
There’s a continuum. There is no such thing as Balance.
Josh Etress wrote on LinkedIn about defining sabbath rests. James Albright wrote about what three things power our pace of life. You should check both of them out.
