Walking the Tightrope

Chapter 11. BALANCING LIFE WITH SPIRITUALITY

Many people find that their natural instinct is to turn to their spiritual foundation or religious beliefs when life finds them frazzled. Most of us believe that at our core is a spiritual essence or soul. Admittedly, when you have a day that sounds sort of like the following, you need something: You wake at 5:30 a.m., pack three lunches for each of your kids, fight over the shower schedule, your spouse takes one kid to daycare and two catch the bus. Before you are down the block starting your commute, your oldest child calls you on your cell phone and begs you to drop off her homework assignment at school so she doesn't flunk biology. You do this, followed by a one-hour commute in stop-and-go traffic, ...