Striking balance between spiritual and temporal things can be challenging. Boyd K. Packer offered this insight,

“Things of the Spirit need not–indeed, should not–require our uninterrupted time and attention. Ordinary work-a-day things occupy most of our attention. And that is as it should be. We are mortal beings living in this physical world.

Spiritual things are like leavening. By measure they may be very small, but by influence they affect all that we do.”

“Revelation in a Changing World,” Ensign, Nov. 1989, p. 14