Today I am grateful for a varied work life that keeps our whole selves busy and active. I think of this sometimes when I am planning our To Do Lists or packing for a time away from home:
What is our Head Work right now? What are we learning, reading, thinking about?
What is our Heart Work right now? What is calling us to care for others, feel beauty, express ourselves?
What is our Hand Work right now? What are we making, doing, and building?
(And then there is also Body Work, which is running, playing, jumping, etc - but that doesn't fit into my "H - Work" alliteration theme.)
I know many people - adults and children - end up in routines that specialize in one of those types of work, but I personally feel out of balance whenever I'm too much in Head, Heart, Hands, or Body. My job, home, and our homeschooling are so wonderful because they all allow for a balanced approach to the types of work in our lives.
Today I spent time comforting a sick child, driving to and from a meeting about 70 miles away from home, meeting with colleagues for mutual support, giving a presentation to colleagues about systems theory and a specific book we had read together (How Your Church Family Works - great book), ruminating on a passing comment that caused me some anxiety and self-reflection, meeting with the youth advisors in my congregation for a check-in and planning meeting, reading another study book (Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times), supervising a child with Spanish and math schoolwork, watching a nature documentary with a sick child, washing dishes, folding and hanging laundry, cooking dinner, knitting a hat, emailing, playing Words with Friends, watching Dexter with my husband, reading blog posts, ranting to my husband about said blog posts, writing thank you notes, and tidying up and sweeping in my home.
With a life as varied and rich as that, no part of me has a chance to atrophy or get out of balance. I am very grateful for the sheer variety life provides.
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