Many years ago I was part of a private workshop that Dick Brogden presented to a group of global workers. Someone asked about maintaining a work-life balance in the rigors of the work that we do across the world, and his response stays with me to this day. He said that most of us were taught to believe in a hierarchical presentation of priorities in our life, in which things flow downward in a list: God, then family, then ministry, then other stuff in a diminishing proportion. But, a model of that sort just isn’t practical in real life. There will always be moments in which there is a crisis in one area that supersedes the needs of another area. So the idea of a perfect ranking of priorities will be disrupted by real life. His version was a wagon wheel, in which God is the hub. From Him, all the other priorities of life go outward like spokes, so that He is the source of wisdom and strength in every other area of my life.

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