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BEAUTY,
BLESSING,
CONFIDENCE
CREATIVITY
GRACE &
REST
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The word "balance," especially when used in relationship to the word "woman," conjures up an image of a woman juggling many things at the same time, trying to keep things from getting out of hand. It is an image of trying and failing at the impossible.
As Women, we are called upon to balance many responsibilities such as caring for our children, our parents, managing our homes and help provide for the family. At the same time, we are expected to keep ourselves mentally and physically healthy so we can do all these things!
With all these expectations, how is it possible for women to even think of, much less include in the balance of things, their own needs to be loved and served? So, we find ourselves asking: "With so many concerns to carry at once, how is it possible for any of us to survive unless we learn to lean on each other?
How is it possible to manage at all unless receiving love and service from each other is as much a part of our daily experience as is giving?
The answer: We must be a Woman Of BALANCE.
In addressing these questions, Balance understood in this way no longer brings to mind an image of a juggling act because we are no longer isolated entities who have to somehow manage to perform the juggling act on our own. Woman Of Balance has more in common with a sense of flow. Woman Of Balance is a picture of women who open their hearts and lives to each other and to God and who are sustained by the flow of love and care between themselves and others. The balance is like a picture of a lake, fed by rivers, and in turn, feeding other rivers. It is a picture of love and care and forgiveness flowing to us and through us.
A Woman of balance lives in a way that allows for such a flow; a way of being which can make it possible for you to receive even as you are giving, to take in love even as you are reaching out in love, to allow others to serve you even as you are serving.
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