Perfect Balance

While watching TV of  the summer Olympic games that took place in China. I enjoyed the bits of information given on Chinese cultural and customs. They mentioned their belief in the Ying Yang principle of balance and harmony that makes life evolve.  I couldn’t help but compare the truth in this concept.     

Wikapedia states: This Symbol (Yin-Yang) represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents "everything", while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called "yin" (black) and "yang" (white), which cause everything to happen. They cannot exist without each other. The shape of the yin and yang sections of the symbol, actually gives you a sense of the continual movement of these two energies, yin to yang and yang to yin, causing everything to happen: just as things expand and contract, and temperature changes from hot to cold. ''The principle of Yin and Yang is the foundation of the entire universe. It underlies everything in creation. It brings about the development of parenthood. Each of them contains an element or seed of the other, and they cannot exist without each other. There is a small black round in white part and a white one in the black part.  Two parts pass through each other on a line because yin and yang are never separated.

What a timely concept to consider. My friend shared a comment that her son-in-law wrote about his wife on their family blog, “I just wanted to write a couple of words and recognize the world’s greatest woman. She is the most amazing, beautiful, talented, lovable and fantastic woman in the world. When I think about our marriage/relationship, we just fit…perfectly!” That sounds to me like a great example of Yin-Yang. 

Sheri Dew sates: “Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him. Satan seeks to confuse us about our stewardships and distinctive natures as men and women. He bombards us with bizarre messages about gender, marriage, family, and all male-female relationships. He would have us believe men and women are so alike that our unique gifts are not necessary, or so different we can never hope to understand each other. Neither is true.

Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole. Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other.” (Liahona, January 2002)

I remember my mother telling me that every family needed a boy and a girl to get the full impact of parenthood because with each gender comes a full array of different emotions and experiences.  My oldest son who has five boys lives in a very masculine driven home yet his wife does a great job letting their sons feel her feminine influence.  I once heard it said that without the characteristics of the nurturing and nesting traits of a wife and mother men would be existing like a life long boy scout outing…but can you imagine the hot bed of emotions if we lived in a world of femininity all the time?  There is a perfect balance that comes with both genders working together and a harmony that comes with it. A perfect Ying-Yang example.