For Everything There Is a Season
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:" Ecc 3:1 Recently, I heard this beautiful folk song again after many years. What it reminded me was that we live in a world of duality - Yin and Yang. We cannot have one without the other. Too much of one thing and not enough of the other causes gross imbalance, as we have seen in our world today. So, as the Ancestors have told us, from every culture on the planet, that we must strive to walk the middle way, strive to maintain balance, strive to stay on center . In meditating on this, I came to see that I was working too much. Each day I "played" less and less. My health has not been great recently. I wondered at the connection, but not for long, because I know that stress weakens our immune system and I was stressed. What to do? First, I evaluated what I HAD to do and what I could let go of - WOW! What a weight off my shoulders when I did that! Second, I looked a...