“You can have it all.” Wherever you turn, this proclamation confronts you, either as a direct quote or an implied fact: whatever you want, you can have it. After all, we live in the land and time of opportunity, right?
Often in our struggle to ‘have it all’ the focus turns to work-life ‘balance’. Questions like, “How can I succeed and advance at work while balancing my responsibilities to family?” It seems we approach life balance as if it were an acrobatic act. How many things can I juggle without dropping one? Have you ever felt that way? Maybe that’s where you are now, trying to balance:
Career, marriage, children
Money, home, hobbies
Facebook friends, family, future dreams
Ministry, personal goals, family
(Can I have a slice of God and a side of purposeful living with that?)
One of the problems with ‘balancing’ life is that it is not easily separated into categories that give themselves well to compartments. If you have ever carried family struggles to work or work problems home, you know what I mean. Author Myron Rush said it well in Lord of The Marketplace. We don’t have a secular life and a sacred life. We have just one life to live. It is not either quality or quantity of time and effort. It is “both-and.” One life is lived with one purpose.
This life is not so much balanced as it is blended.
If there were a recipe for a well-lived life it certainly would not keep all the ingredients separated in their own containers. Instead, all the ingredients must be blended together in proportion with one another. If we approach life in this manner, it seems we can have it all. You can eat your cake and have it too. At least to the extent that we live each day with ‘all’ our being, all that God has created us to be. If God has the very best plan for us, then bringing all our desires and ambitions in alignment with His seems to be the key to ‘having it all.’
What does ‘having it all’ mean to you? What would it look like to stop balancing life and start blending it? Add your comment to benefit other readers in the Go Light Your World community!
“You will seek me and you will find me when you seek me with all your heart.” – God. (Jeremiah 29:13)
I used this as my ‘handbook’ when in Newtonia as a young business owner. It seems greed is a formidable foe when it comes to business in many practitioners’ souls…as it prevented my new associates ‘breaking through’ the unconscious addictions of success and profit. Moving on was a good thing. The Christian Businessmen’s Association still recommends the ‘Lord of the Marketplace’ as it was given to me, thankfully. Blessings!
“Success and profit” is an addictive drug! Thanks for your wise comment, Jan!