The longer I live the more I realize the ease with which we can slip into extremes, to my own embarrassment, I find it in myself. A major prayer of mine as I grow older is "Lord, keep me balanced"
We need a balance between work and play, between kindness and firmness, between waiting and praying, between saying and spending, between wanting too much and expecting too little, between warm acceptance and keen discerment, between grace and truth.
For many folks, the struggle with imbalance is not an annual conflict- it's daily grind. The adversary of our souls is the expert of extremes. He never runs out ways of push us to the limit to get us to go so far out on one end we, cast perspective to the winds.
The longer I live, the more I must fight the tendency to go to extremes, and the more I value balance.
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