Finding balance in the tensions of life

Learning to live life fully requires appreciation for all of life.
Life is meant to be lived in balance.

Weeping and dancing, solitude and community, unity and diversity, dependency and interdependency, scripture and tradition, reason and experience, spirit and structure, thinking and doing, beauty and raggedness, mystery and wisdom, imagination and reality, exploring and discovering, leading and following, God and people, strength and weakness, theology and practice, celibacy and families, caring and challenging, mercy and justice, gifts and talents, sacrifice and rest, work and play, worship and laughter, brokenness and healing, justice and progress, devotion and action, seeking and finding, learning and teaching, humility and confidence, science and art, authenticity and excellence, material and spiritual, culture and missions, poor and rich, inner world and outer world, the individual and the community, creativity and productivity, the ancient and the future, old and young, living and dying, the profound and the simple, peace and struggle, risk and common sense, story and instruction, character and skills, adventure and routine, chaos and organization, messiness and clarity, silence and noise, soul and mind, physical and spiritual, optimism and realism, divinity and humanity, dialogue and debate, being hungry and being filled, natural and supernatural, teamwork and solo, head and heart, soul and body, competency and character, stability and surprises, innovative and practical, organic and ritual, men and women, religious and irreligious, interpersonal and intrapersonal, mentoring and training, mountain experiences and desert experiences, prayer and listening ...