When my life is in balance, I feel at my best. It’s when I’m eating right, exercising enough, physically fine, have a social life, enough work to do, emotionally happy and spiritually sound. When all of that is good, I feel at my absolute best.
It’s when something goes out of sync that I start to feel ‘off balance’ and slightly unsettled. Something’s not right.
From abblifequest.com
It’s pretty difficult to get everything perfect. When I receive good news and it’s exciting and lifts my spirits, there’s this surge of happy hormone that brings with it a lightness of spirit. But I can’t have that all the time either.
Regardless of the highs, life soon returns to normal. Even though I am in love with Mike, I’m not on the 9th cloud of when he first started showing an interest in me 31 years ago. Now it’s a comfortable cloud – especially now that he has retired. He goes out to water the garden, I go out to hang the washing. It’s very companionable. That’s what 30+ years of friendship brings. A very comfortable companionship.
But when trouble comes and the balance is thrown completely out either with Mike or me or someone close to me, the sweet balance gives way to a stressful, uncertain heaviness that weighs on my heart and reduces my level of happiness.
That’s not easy to deal with.
It’s easy to have a solid foundation when my life is in balance. It’s easy to praise the Lord and be grateful and feel the warmth of His love as I feel the sun shining on my back.
But when things go wrong and storm clouds gather and there is no sunshine in sight, how then does my solid foundation look?
The truth is that the solid foundation remains the same.
Matthew 7:24 – words of Jesus
“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.”
It makes sense to me that I build my life and all that goes with on the solid rock that comes with listening to and following what God says. 2016 was a wonderful year for us. It was like being on honeymoon! We were together all the time. Trusting God for the future allows me to go into every year ahead with confidence.
I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know Who holds the future.
And that’s good news!
Part of my life is my work and yesterday I was pleased that the next round of interview dates were sent to us and I was able to book my flights to Johannesburg and Durban. So now it’s time to put my head down and get on with finding the final few applicants to interview and then to complete all their documentation. This job suits me so much. It’s very goal oriented and very fun to achieve the goal! 🙂
#156 of my 1000 thanks is that the dates came through for the interviews and I got to book my flights and organise to meet my sister for lunch in Joburg next month. 🙂
These are the days!
Keep the smile going!
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂