SPIRITUAL SUNDAYS

After posting pictures of our Thomas Kinkade paintings and other Kinkade stuff, I decided to take another look at one of his books, Lightposts for Living. I love it when one of my favorite celebrities is a Christian. 

One of the chapters in this book is about balance. It's called Remember to Keep Moving. He asks if you have ever tried to balance yourself on one foot without moving. It can't be done. You have to keep readjusting or you will fall over. I remember trying to balance my bike when I was a kid while standing still. You can't do it. You have to get moving. Kinkade uses the example of a seesaw on a playground. The fun of playing on it is moving up and down. He says you could make the whole thing more stable if you took the board off and laid it on the ground, but the result would be boring and meaningless. 

Life requires a constant shifting, changing and readjusting. Otherwise, life would be very boring. As Christians we want the light of Christ to shine in our lives. To do this we must live a balanced life in my opinion. 

Kinkade goes on to say that the very changing tilting dynamic he has found can sometimes fool us into thinking we're losing our balance when we're actually doing all right. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves to relax a little more, and worry a little less, to trust the way we've blocked in the composition and set ourselves up for balance, to remember the big picture and not let the details overwhelm it.

Up, down, with a constantly changing perspective on the canvas of your life -- it's the way things should be. A dynamic equilibrium--full of richness and balance and harmony and joy. 

When I find my focus and keep my balance --

I find that all is right with my world.

                 -Thomas Kinkaid

Be sure to visit the Spiritual Sundays blog for links to other posts. And -- if you didn't see the Thomas Kinkade photos that I put on my other blog, you can click here to go there.