Do you ever wonder how to live a balanced life? Do you have too much of one thing going on and not enough of something else? Who doesn’t want a balanced life, right?
I appreciate the spiritual legacy left by the Celtic Christians. They had a way of blending the things of the spirit with the everyday work of living, which brought their world into balance.
Yesterday was a holiday and today is work—part of the harmony of living. That being so, I thought I’d share a Celtic poem from Hebridean Altars about living in balance.
Labour and rest, work and ease,
the busy hand, and then the skilled thought:
this blending of opposites
is the secret
of the joy of living.
Question: What brings your life into balance? What “blending of opposites” brings joy to your life? Share with us in the comment section below.
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Michael Hyatt shared his thoughts along these lines in How Your Life is Like a Tapestry. I think you’ll relate to his words.
“Jesus likes it when we share,” -Adelaide, age 3: Pass this along to everybody and their brother. OK, maybe not everybody’s brother, but you know . . . all of your friends would be nice.