Are My Husband & Children Enough For Me?

Their are so many enticements in this world, especially in America!  Education, careers, travel, hobbies, fun, entertainment...even benevolent work.. volunteering, causes that need our help.  All the options available to us can never fit in one life!  To me, it seems, maybe only 10% of the things available to us actually belong.  To be a wife is to be a "helpmate".. to commit our lives to assisting another person in achieving the goals God has set out for them.  To be a mother is to be spend your time turning away from some of the things that you desire to take care of the children and to do everything you can so that they can fulfill their God-given purposes.

So many times, it is important as a disciple of Christ, living not of this world but instead for the kingdom, to turn aside from those other enticements .. to make yourself, say "no!", to make yourself be home, be still, make meals, manage the home, create the space, be available with enough strength physically, emotionally and spiritually for these few people.

Is it enough at the end of our lives to have spent them holding back from other things for the higher purpose of being there for these few?  ...To do this job well?  To many times play the behind the scenes role? .. to say "No" to things that might be fun, not doubt about it, but they take you away from these people that you are called to for a lifetime?

When I get to the end of my life I wonder if much of the deciding factor whether I will be called "good & faithful" will be first directed at whether my heart stayed in love and in tune with my Lord, and secondly did I love "these" well ... Did I pour out my life for these "friends"?  Maybe most people's lives come down to their ministry to just a few.  There is a world of people out there.. billions of people on the earth and yet we are so limited in capacity to how many we can reach.. will our lives touch 1000?  500?  how about even 200?

One life's reach can seem so small, but the question isn't how vast our reach but how deep.  How many people can you love well?

Count up the people in your family ... and ask yourself, "Are they enough for me?"

I want my family at the end of my life to know they were enough .. if my life touches only theirs, that's more than enough for me.