Balance

I almost had it.  I felt like it was in my grasp.  After 29 years of life, 12 years of school, 4.5 years of college, 5 years of marriage, 6 years in the professional world, 2 years of graduate school, and lots of learning along the way I almost felt like my life was balanced.

When I speak of balance I mean the ability to have all of the aspects of life work in harmony with one another.  Routines, habits, work, worship, play, friends, family, exercise, hobbies, and all of the other side roles we play fall into place and work nicely with one another.  

And then we had a baby.  In our opinion, the cutest baby on the planet.  And once sweet little Beau Bradley came into our lives we were back out of balance, in the best way possible.  

Through prayer, reading books, listening to sermons, speaking with mentors, and listening to those with more experience, I'm learning to be unbalanced.  Or maybe I should say I'm learning to balance fewer things.  I'm learning to balance being a Husband, Father, & Educator and let everything else fall into place in one way or another.

I've been learning through many avenues how to let go.  I can only control so much and in the grand scheme of things I really don't have control of anything anyway.  

I know who holds tomorrow and I know it's never me.

Are you balanced?  Should you be?