Is under unimaginable pressure right now to perform professionally while balancing family life and being of service to the God he loves. It happens to all of us at times in our lives; more work than we can possibly accomplish and an expectation of ourselves that makes it impossible to do the work adequately.
And yet, this is the quote he put on his blog this week:
Both abundance and lack [of abundance] exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend . . . when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us [happiness]—the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.
- Breathnach
even with his life in time-starved turmoil, John can see the bigger picture. He doesn't get to live it right now; he has the microlife of a consultant who has people to manage and a partner to please not to mention a client who wants him to deliver the world; with all problems solved in it; on a silver platter in the next 4 weeks. With children who adore him and a wife who likes to be with him I know he feels he cannot do it all.
But he sees there is more. And when his four weeks of frenetic professionalism comes to an end, his depth and dimension will have seen him through it.
because that is the guy that I married.
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