Sunday, April 27, 2008

How do you cheat???

We just finished up a book in our ABF(Adult Bible Fellowship-aka-Sunday school) class called choosing to cheat. It is not what you think immediately think it is about though. It is about how we sacrifice family time for work, hobbies, or other stuff. I know that this is something I struggle with often. Even though I only work part time I still feel like I cheat my family. It is a constant struggle to try and make sure I am taking care of there needs. But what we learned was in the end there will probably always be someone who looses. When we had kids and I went part-time we have always said if it came down to it and work made me choose work full time or be at home with the kids I would choose my family. that is an easy answer but often the questions are not that cut and dry, do you stay late to try and get ahead or impress the boss. Do you stay because everyone else is working late and you do not want them to think you are a team player? Ultimately when we do this we are cheating our family. So I am trying to be better about this. I am trying to make baby steps and improve. It is not always easy but it is what God wants me to do, I need to pray about it and rely on him to get me through and if it is not working take a good look at that also. Maybe the job you have really does require you to work 60 hours and not 40, ultimately maybe that means you need to take the steps to find something else, because in the end who will be the one's who really loose when we cheat will it be our boss, maybe but probably not (I think if we are honest we realize we are all replaceable) it is our families. So how do you cheat? If you are interested in the book it is by Andy Stanley and is a short little book so it is an easy read. Anyways just something for you all to think about and ponder, I know I am.

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