Growing Women Leaders – Session 1: Break the Balance Ball “Weighed in the Balance”
My “homework” for the Growing Women Leaders Seminars I am attending.
| Quote: |
| © Ann Griffiths, 2007 Bring It Home #2 List all the roles and responsibilities you have to fulfill in a typical week. Now place each role/responsibility, one at a time, on one side of a scale and imagine God’s expectation for you on the other side. As you measure each role/responsibility against God’s measurement, note how the scale is tipped or balanced and ask God what He wants to do in this area of your life. |
Roles:
Wife
Mom
Pastor’s Wife
Friend
Cell Member
C-Cell Co-Leader
Responsibilities:
Pay Bills/Handle Finances
Prepare Meals
Laundry
House Keeping
Educating Children
Transporting Children
Overall Care for Family
Dishes
Prepare for C-Cell
(Note: this is actually harder than I thought it would be, just to lay out the roles and responsibilities, much less to do the rest… The list is by no means exhaustive, but the value is in the exercise of making and processing through the list, not the list itself.)
On paper I drew out a scale for each role/responsibility (I’m pretty visual), so I won’t try to recreate that here. Overall I noted that things aren’t terribly out of whack in terms of where I am and what I perceive God’s expectations of me to be. I had a few that feel like there is a pretty good balance there (Pastor’s Wife & Transporting children) and only 1 that was further off kilter than I anticipated.
I will share what I felt God wants me to do in all these areas.
Roles:
Wife – Support & love my sweetie; speak his language
Mom – Consistency; positive interaction; encourage
Pastor’s Wife – Go deeper in relationsips
Friend – Stay in touch
Cell Member – Stay in touch; pray for them
C-Cell Co-Leader – Pray for the children; pray for our cell time on Saturday nights
Responsibilities:
Pay Bills/Handle Finances – control personal & household spending
Prepare Meals – don’t just feed them, nourish them
Laundry – take more of this load off my sweetie (he normally does the laundry)
House Keeping – be sensible; don’t go overboard; love the space you’re in.
Educating Children – be fully involved
Transporting Children – be willing to run around & shuffle plans & coordinate hectic days (we only have 1 car)
Overall Care for Family – be more present; training; encourage
Dishes – the kitchen is the hub of your home – love it and show how much you love it.
Prepare for C-Cell – pray over the material; encourage my co-leader
