There's Always Something

Balance. So hard. It really is. For me, a full time working mom,I'm constantly in pursuit of balance, which to me is kind of funny because it's one more thing I have to do, but doing this one is a big deal. But over the last few weeks I've learned something about balance.  Balance requires everything you have. If I don't give everything I have to what I'm doing, whether it's resting, reading, praying, playing, or something else, then I'm not balancing anything.  I'm balancing half-things. And I'm, fortunately or unfortunately, not a half-things person. Balance isn't really eliminating things, it's about choosing which things are important enough to put closer to the fulcrum, to hold you down, and letting the others slide to the end of the lever, where if the important things take a shift, the less important things fall off. But it also means that those things on the end, when you look at them and use them, deserve your full attention too. ...