Blasted or Blessed Balance?

We have had a bit of rain here in Honduras this week.  For many it is a welcome relief from the dryness and holds the dust down a bit, for a while.  Not all have benefited from the rain though.  Suzy's house, currently almost roofless, was not helped by being open to the rains that so many welcomed.  Still I was glad for the plants that were so thirsty for water.
Yet too much water can be so destructive.  The hurricanes here that devastate and erode so much land is too much.  The walls of water caused by tsunamis are horrendously destructive.  The videos and photos we are getting via the internet of the massive waves and damage in Japan are horribly mesmerizing.  Watching  a wall of water sweep away cars, trucks, houses, large warehouses is one thing-until you realize with a sickening feeling there are people in those houses and cars.  Old women and men, young children and babies, mothers trying to keep their precious children safe while they themselves are so terrified.  The waves of destruction that follow- fires, flooded fields growing this year's food, possible nuclear meltdowns.  The circles of destruction widens.

Several years ago I was in therapy with a very special woman who taught me many life lessons.  The one that keeps coming coming back to me is the dreaded, blasted "B" word-balance.  Finding the balance between too little and too much of any thing, the balance between extremes is not always easy or self evident.  How much water is enough?  The results of too little or too much destroys life.  Only the right amount is beneficial.
Likewise with other resources-sun, light, food, fuel, wealth, power, influence.  I believe Jesus came into the world to show us the way God wants us to live, to point the way to his Father God..  I believe Christ wants us to live and work and share and live and grow in the fellowship of community in God the Father, Son and Spirit, ever seeking the balance that brings us closer to the life we are meant to live.  The blasted balance word is becoming the blessed balance of abundance in Christ Jesus.
The teams that come to work here, at LAMB and elsewhere, as well as myself, wrestle with the question of balance.  We are blessed with enough resources to be able to come to help a bit, or a lot as our resources and talents allow.  The people here share their abundance of spirituality, of love, of faith, of joy in the Lord.  May God grant that our sharing what we have alllows growth in the Spirit and love of Christ.