Linda Mayer challenges herself with questions like these: "Is what I'm doing at this moment spiritually motivated, regardless of whether it's family or work? Am I being led by spiritual priorities rather than by a formula that dictates that I should devote so many hours a day to work, and so many hours a day to the family?"
Not long ago, she says, she was feeling so overwhelmed at work that she was suffering a kind of dizziness that frightened her. She asked a Christian Science practitioner to pray with her, and their conversation drifted quite naturally toward balance.
"I had always thought that I could compartmentalize my life and put work in one box and family in another box," says Linda. "Eventually I realized that this approach actually was the problem—that life was really one complete whole, consisting of work and family.
