Toss the Briefcase!
Theme of the Week: Filling Your Family Role
Monday, November 30, 2009
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Key Bible Verse: It is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy (1 Corinthians 4:2, ESV). Bonus Reading: Matthew 25:14-30
I used to have a ten-minute drive home from work. I would allow my mind to decompress and think about work until I got to a small bridge on Howell Branch Road. That bridge was about three minutes from the house. Then I would take all of the papers, figuratively, and I'd put them into an imaginary briefcase, shut it, throw it over the wall and, in my mind, I'd watch it splash into the creek.
I did this imaginary exercise to clear my mind so that by the time I got home I was ready to re-engage my family. Actually, what I did first was give myself 15 minutes to wash my face, put on some jeans, and then ask Patsy how she was doing.
From that moment on, I basically gave myself to my children. There were endless repetitions of Chutes and Ladders, mind-numbing sets of Candyland—both of which require the IQ of a goldfish. I hated those games for the same reason my children loved them. That's because no matter how competitively you play, the other player is still going to win half the games.
Stewardship of my family time is such a challenging discipline because it affects every single area of my of life. Yet stewardship is the inevitable lifestyle of an authentic Christian man.
—Patrick Morley in A Man's Guide to Spiritual Disciplines
My Response: A change I could make that would help me be a better steward of my family time is …
Adapted from A Man's Guide to Spiritual Disciplines (Moody, 2007) by permission.
Copyright © 2009 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Lord, teach me to be a good steward of my family time and convict me when I am not.
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