How Balanced Is Your Life?

Are you missing one of its essential parts?

Living Faith by James M. Dakis
6 min readJan 17, 2023

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Don’t we all want balance in life?

Just out of curiosity, I Googled, “How do I balance my life?” Not wanting to spend the rest of my life reading even a fraction of the search results, I was satisfied just to know that the return got me 2,240,000,000 results! That means that there are over 2 and a quarter billion places on the internet where I can find the “answer” to how to get balance in my life… or so someone thinks.

Why is this so important? Why do we have so many questions about it? Is life so complicated that most, if not all, of us are tipping one way or another and need to find a way to get centered? If I had to give a short answer to this question it would be probably, at least most of us.

For the record, this article is in no way an attempt at giving a magical answer to this question.

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Living Faith by James M. Dakis

Christian minister writing to inspire and encourage others in their daily walk with the Lord.