A Prayer for Finding Balance by Christine Brown, read by Leah Martin.

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health as

it goes well with your soul. Third John 1 verse 2. Looking at my calendar for the

week, a familiar heaviness settles into my stomach. I've done it again, not

intentionally, but when those last few requests came in for one more phone call,

one more meeting, one more event, I said yes. Now I'm regretting it with every

thing in my being. The only way out was like a familiar tune I sing to myself

every time overwhelm takes over. I need a break. I need to rest. The pressure of

doing it all is followed by the desire to step away from it all, to give in to

the exhaustion. And just like that, I've fallen into the same trap of all or

nothing that I promised myself I'd avoid. Life feels a lot like a rollercoaster

ride these days. As a kid, I anticipated the adrenaline rush of going faster and

faster, followed by the need for a reprieve. Pretty soon that desire for more

rush took over and I was back in line again. It's fun for a visit to the theme

park, but not so much when it's real life. If only I could learn to move with

steady assurance instead of full speed ahead, if only I could find balance in life.

Let's look at third John 1 verse 2 again. Beloved, I pray that all may go well

with you and that you may be in good health as it goes well with your soul. In

this opening to his friend, Gaius, John makes a statement about the connection

between our physical health and spiritual health. We can work diligently for the

Lord, our families and our jobs with the best intentions, but every go-getter

knows. When we don't stay centered on God, we will find ourselves overloaded.

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