A Compact Guide to Balancing Your Life

Everyone has an idea of what balance is. For some people, balance might mean getting the photo albums in order. Others feel organized only after every speck of dust in the house has been wiped away. And still others find contentment by evenly dividing their time among friends, family, work and recreation. All of these goals may help us obtain balance for a few hours or days. But unfortunately, the good feelings of accomplishment will eventually go away had have to be chased down once again.

Is it possible to experience a true sense of balance, and inner peace that endures despite our many frantic activities and responsibilities? In A Compact Guide to Balancing Your Life, author Brad Lewis reveals that real balance not only is possible to find, but is actually a gift just waiting to be opened-a gift from God.

God designed human beings to be satisfied only when they have a personal relationship with him. A Compact Guide to Balancing Your Life will encourage you to surrender your worries and pressures to God and then ask him to help you prioritize and organize what's left. Chock full of ideas, tips, and biblical insights of what achieving a balanced life might look like, A Compact Guide to Balancing Your Life will demonstrate how a loving relationship with God will bring you more peace and contentment than you ever thought possible.

Brad Lewis is senior acquisitions editor at NavPress. He is also a contributing editor for Rev. magazine for pastors. Previously, he served as editor of Christian Parenting Today magazine and assistant editor of Decision magazine. Brad is a graduate of Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended Wheaton Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois. He and his wife, Esther, live in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and are the parents of two sons, Nate and Trent.