Balancing life in time

A struggle for me for a long time (and probably will continue to be) has been balancing personal life, family life, friends life, and ministry life. When you are working within a relational ministry model (which I would contend my life for) lines between these areas of life get blurred and it is hard to find balance sometimes. I spoke with Doug Thompson, a pastor in California about a week ago and this is one of the main things we spoke about. He talked about how you cannot put one part of life at a higher priority than another since God has called us to be faithful in all areas of life. He described life as a tire and each area of life having an area of the tire. If one area of the tire is deflated or over-inflated the whole tire will be affected negatively and problems will arise. His point of being 100% faithful in each area has encouraged and helped me greatly. So this means, when I am at work, I am 100% at work and give everything to that area, same with personal time, family time, etc. This is helpful and a good perspective to have in those areas, but what about when ministry occurs during personal time or family time? (welcome to relational ministry) What happens when an emergency arises and you are 100% in family time? This is where perspective and help from others is greatly beneficial. This is where you need to look at the tire and see if you have a complete circle with everything balanced or not. May we be 100% faithful in each of the many areas of life.