balance

balance can be a good thing

• it's what keeps me upright when walking or running
• it's what keeps me safely ladder when mudding the basement ceiling
• it's what i try to do when i bring the grocery bags in

but balance, as it is often used in church, is something else

• we have to have balance - "don't rock the boat"
• we have to have balance - "don't do anything that will upset '_____'"
• we have to have balance - "let's use a pulpit some of the time"
• we have to have balance - "it's ok to let the Holy Spirit move, but only so much... we don't want to offend"

the list can go on...

i came across this quote this morning by J.I. Paker

"balance... that dreadful self-conscious word"
quoted in No Well-Worn Paths by Terry Virgo, 2001