{"id":314,"date":"2009-07-29T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2010-02-23T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:34:30","slug":"find-balance-july-29-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/find-balance-july-29-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Balance, July 29 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ethan

Ethan teaching Jake how to ride a two wheeler bike<\/p><\/div>\n

Finding balance is like learning to ride a bike for the 1st time.\u00a0 We took the training wheels off of Jake’s bike, he is 4 year’s old, this weekend.\u00a0 In the picture above Ethan his 10 year old brother is trying to help him.\u00a0 Remember the 1st time you tried to ride a bike?\u00a0\u00a0It took me forever to learn.\u00a0 It is a learned skill to be able to balance on two wheels.\u00a0 If you lean too far one way or the other you fall. When you have learned balance you can pedal, brake and ride that bike forever.\u00a0 It seems that once you master that skill you never do forget.\u00a0 It’s true I rode a bike for the 1st time since I was a teenager a few years ago and it all came back to me.\u00a0 Now my husband and I ride bikes with our kids in parks and down on the river.\u00a0 We love to bike together.\u00a0 The little kids; Jake and Spencer ride on a tandem bike attached to our bikes, the tandem has one wheel and is connected to the back.\u00a0 Talk about needing balance.\u00a0 If the child I am attached to moves too far one way or the other I almost fall off the bike.<\/p>\n

It is like that in life.\u00a0 How many of us are trying to find that balance?\u00a0 If\u00a0we try to be the best we possibly can be at work we stay late and our mind is always on our work, we lean too far one way.\u00a0 If we put every thought and all of our time into our family our work can suffer, we lean too far the other way.\u00a0 How do we find a balance?\u00a0 It is a learned skill.\u00a0 I don’t believe the balance just comes naturally to anyone!\u00a0 I believe you have to try to ride that bike with balance daily.\u00a0 Jake learned by letting Ethan help him.\u00a0 It is easier to do it with help and guidance than all alone.\u00a0 Maybe God should be the\u00a0 one holding the seat of our bike.\u00a0 Maybe instead of getting on and trying to take off full speed we need to be conscious of God helping to get us balanced and then letting us go!<\/p>\n

How often in your life do you feel overwhelmed and so stressed out you could explode?\u00a0 Is it from your work place or from your family life, committing too many extra activities, sports or clubs for your children?\u00a0Think about one of those times you felt so stressed out for a moment.\u00a0 What was going on?\u00a0 Were you leaning too far one way or the other?\u00a0 I think it is a daily task to stay up on that bike and we need to recognize that, instead of just thinking it will all work itself out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So today as you climb back up on your bike try not to lean too far one way or the other and let God be the one to help you learn the skill of balance by giving him some of your time.\u00a0 Say a prayer and ask that He help provide you with the wisdom to know when you are leaning and the strength to give Him a chance daily to hold on to the seat of your bike.\u00a0 When we\u00a0learn to let God help us we can acquire the fine skill of balance in our daily lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finding balance is like learning to ride a bike for the 1st time.\u00a0 We took the training wheels off of Jake’s bike, he is 4 year’s old, this weekend.\u00a0 In the picture above Ethan his 10 year old brother is trying to help him.\u00a0 Remember the 1st time you tried to ride a bike?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[89,94,22,93,91,92,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}