Balance

The baby has crawled for a while and even knows how to stand. She takes her first steps and plops to the ground. She lost her balance. The running back is heading to the goal line when he is blindsided by a linebacker charging at full speed. He hits the turf hard. He lost his balance. The bartender calls a cab. The middle-aged man stumbles between the door of the bar and the door of the car. He lost his balance.

People lose their balance all the time. Inexperience like the baby. Outside forces like the running back. Poor choices like the guy at the bar. 

Balance is something some of us struggle with all of the time and all of us struggle with some of the time. 

• We don’t have enough money at the end of the month to pay our bills. We keep going a little further into debt. 
• We don’t have enough time during the week to spend time with the people we want to see or to do the things we want to do. 
• Stress from various areas of life prevents us from enjoying life and sleeping. It is taking a toll on our physical health. 
• We carry heavy burdens from the past that fill our present lives with regret and guilt. 
• We are constantly connected to technology and disconnected from life. 
• We are unable to say “no” to less important things and people so that we can say “yes” to more important things and people. 
• We go through the motions of the day on life’s terms and put our priorities and dreams on hold. 

We live lives full of anxiety, clutter, and demands. God’s plan is that our lives are full of purpose, focus, and grace. A disconnect occurs between who we are and who we are created to be. 

Last week, as we launched The Water’s Edge into a new season of ministry, we looked at the stones of possibility, forgiveness, and resurrection. During the next three weeks we are going to look at attaining balance in life. Balance that will allow our possibilities to be realities. Balance that will allow us to learn from the shortcomings of our past while simultaneously putting the past behind us. And balance that will resurrect us from who we are to who God wants us to be. 

I pray at the end of these three weeks, we are all traveling toward lives of connectedness to God and others and that we deepen our experience of purpose, focus, and grace. 

The best is yet to come… 

Craig