And, yes, it really is about the kids now. They're now my raison d'etre.
I was thinking about this in church today. I was hearing about the various missions my church is involved in when I started thinking about the act of serving to build the kingdom of God. I thought about how a couple of the times this year when I had volunteered to help, my plans seemed to go awry, mainly because of scheduling conflicts due to taking care of two young children. It reminded me of a sermon by Tony Evans about how God intended for the bulk of the work to build His kingdom to be handled by unattached singles.
Well, by me having a family, it really should leave me out of most of that kingdom-building stuff anyway. Instead, God intends for we parents to place more focus on our children, to raise them in the way of the Lord -- that is our highest priority in this circumstance.
