August 25, 2008

Throughout the years, Steve and I have held to a concept; we will not sacrifice our children, our marriage or our family on the altar of church service.  In all that we do with our time and energy, our main ministry at this point in our lives is to four things; each other, and our 3 children. All other things must drop away if they take us away from what we need to do for that primary ministry, even service to the church.

This gets to be a very difficult principle to stick to for two reasons:

1. We watch those around us prosper while we postpone our endeavors for the sake of our children’s needs and best interests. We are educated and at times desire that “earthly” success but not at the expense of our children.

2. Pressure from people that do not understand our priority system when it comes to service.  The church often does not recognize why we refrain from being over involved.  In fact, often it is mistaken as we are not training our children properly in the spiritual paths.  Actually, when we are not overly busy, we have more time to actually talk to them about important issues and topics.

We trust God to make good with us on this sacrifice eventually.  It may be in eternity when we can answer for our stewardship but none the less we trust God in this.