Don’t you love to watch Olympic athletes performing on the balance beam? Don’t you admire their focus to accomplish their goals? I do!

As each year passes I strive for more balance in my life. I want to be a focused, determined, “eye-on-the-goal” Christian. Are you like me?

Do you seek not to “go to church” but to worship? Do you seek not to “work” but to live for the Lord? Do you want a balance of “doing” and just being quiet with Him?

Are you learning, as I am, to appreciate a balance of joy and sorrow, prosperity and adversity, recognition and humiliation? And how about learning how to be both a grateful giver and gracious receiver? Do you want to avoid segregating work from home, leisure from learning and strive to integrate all of these into just living in precious communion with Him each moment of the day? Is biblical, balanced living an impossible dream? I don’t think so, for “with God all things are possible!”