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so, unfortunately, I totaled my van.\u00a0 I was trying to make it do something it wasn\u2019t designed for; so, it broke down.\u00a0 We, as women, sometimes feel like we\u2019ve been totaled.\u00a0 We feel like we\u2019re breaking down.\u00a0 Well, maybe we\u2019re not designed to do what we\u2019re trying to do.\u00a0 We\u2019re not designed for that purpose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Monday, February 28<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 So, what exactly is God\u2019s design for womanhood and what\u2019s broken?\u00a0 We\u2019re going to talk about that today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>; thanks for joining us.\u00a0 You know this is going to stir some things up, don\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is going to ruffle some feathers.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you\u2019re okay with that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hey, I think if there\u2019s ever been a day when there needed to be some good, clear biblical teaching and instruction with compassion for women, it is today.\u00a0 Fortunately, you and I are not the ones\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019re going to be providing that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That might make it a little difficult to choke down if they\u2019re having to hear from you and me; so, we invited Shaunti Feldhahn to join us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Put her in the firing line.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think, you know\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks, guys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What better person to bring in here and to say, \u201cOkay, Shaunti, speak the truth in love.\u201d\u00a0 Welcome back to the broadcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is good to be with you, I think.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You think.\u00a0 Well, our listeners recognize her because of her book, <em>For Women Only<\/em>.\u00a0 She has been teaming up with FamilyLife and Robert Lewis here at FamilyLife around a new project called <em>The LifeReady Woman<\/em>.\u00a0 Now, Shaunti explain to our listeners what <em>The LifeReady Woman<\/em> project is all about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I think the subtitle actually says it all because the subtitle is \u201cThriving in a Do It All World.\u201d\u00a0 Basically, what it is, is helping women see a biblical blueprint for how we balance our lives as modern women.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019ve done that in a book that you and Robert have co-written\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Correct.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But there is also a curriculum that you put together?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 There is a video driven study that women can do like the Bible studies that many women do each spring, fall, summer, whatever.\u00a0 It is an eight session study where it is a teaching time and a small group discussion time.\u00a0 The whole point is to bring women of all ages and stages of life: different demographic backgrounds, stay-at-home moms, executives.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody can benefit from seeing what the Bible says about how we as modern women really organize our lives; so that, we do have this sense of thriving in abundance and peace rather than the stress and the \u201chow do I get through life.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was thinking where Bob was going as he asked you that question and he\u2014when he said, \u201cNow, you\u2019ve done that.\u201d\u00a0 He went on to talk about the video series that has been created for women, but you\u2019ve also done it in real life because you\u2019re a graduate of Harvard.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been a writer for a major newspaper, you are a mom of two, you\u2019ve got one husband that you\u2019re juggling all of life, and you\u2019re living this right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So, you\u2019ve thrived in a do it all world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m the guinea pig.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m the study actually.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I\u2019m definitely the guinea pig.\u00a0 I have a husband of sixteen years and two kids who are seven and ten years old.\u00a0 I have a thriving ministry of traveling and speaking and writing these books and soccer runs\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 And church activities and everything else that every other woman juggles.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Most women who are juggling it find themselves at least at some point going, \u201cYou can\u2019t do it all\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cAnd quit trying to tell me I can.\u00a0 I\u2019m dying under the pile.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Well, this is actually one of the things that is, I think, one of the key principles for women to start with.\u00a0 When we start figuring out, \u201cOkay, what is this biblical blueprint look like,\u201d one of the key principles is to confront some of these myths that we believe.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of those myths is the idea that you can have it all or at least have it all, all at the same time.\u00a0 We\u2019re not designed to be able to have it all, all at the same time.\u00a0 It is killing us when we try.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That is what I want to talk about for a moment.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say Bob and I had the ability to go back and interview you right after you\u2019d walked across the stage and received your diploma from Harvard; and we said, \u201cShaunti, we want to sit down.\u00a0 We just want to get your perspective of what a real woman is, what God\u2019s woman is all about.\u201d\u00a0 What would we have heard from at that moment from you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Were you a believer when you graduated?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was.\u00a0 Yes\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 So, you were\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I had been a believer for three or four years at that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Committed to Christ.\u00a0 You wanted to live your life to honor Him, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Harvard helped\u2014helped anchor you biblically\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, immensely as you can imagine.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Around what a woman is to be, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s just say that the Christian fellowship group there and the people there had slightly different opinions than all my classmates about what things should look like.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 So, what would you have said?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I probably would have said, \u201cOh, yes.\u00a0 I can have it all.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to have the husband and the kids; I\u2019m going to have the thriving business; I\u2019m going to grow organic food; and I\u2019m going to make all of our clothes.\u00a0 I\u2019m to do it all and go to the gym every morning and be a size six.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo according to sort of what you think growing up in this culture it does feel like that is what your life is supposed to look like, which is one of the reasons why there are so many women who just feel guilty all the time.\u00a0 Or they feel incredibly stressed, torn, and burdened; and it\u2019s because we are trying to fit into this mold that, really, is impossible for anybody: man or woman.\u00a0 Men aren\u2019t designed to be able to do it all, all at the same time either.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the things I did a number of years ago was teach a sixth grade Sunday school class.\u00a0 I would occasionally ask the young ladies, \u201cWhat do you want do, what do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d\u00a0 After a few years of hearing this\u2014now again, mind you, this was more than a decade ago; so, we\u2019re talking about, really, not recently because things have changed a bit since ten years ago.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I began to ask them that question, a number of them would say, \u201cJob, success.\u201d Virtually none of them talked about being a wife\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Being a mother.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Investing in the next generation.\u00a0 It is not that you can\u2019t do both because when we did decide to do this video Bible study series for women, we chose you.\u00a0 You\u2019re juggling a lot of things.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Women do work.\u00a0 They do raise kids in the process, but the problem is this culture is not really training young ladies to be a wife and a mom.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 In fact, you sat down with a diverse group of women.\u00a0 I think there were fourteen in your group.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You quizzed them, asked them a bunch of questions, and just got a lot of feedback as a part of the process for this.\u00a0 What did you learn from them?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is one of the things that, to me, was the most important sort of foundational piece of how this was going to work to create a study that worked for all women.\u00a0 This is one of the things, honesty, I think the Christian community has struggled with in trying to put together books and Bible studies because we tend to sort of automatically want to fit into this white, suburban, Evangelical, living in the Suburbs mold.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m in my early forties, and I can tell you how this applies to me as an early forties, white, suburban, Evangelical, conservative Christian.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what looks like to try to be a biblical woman who is a black, single mom in the inner city.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what it looks like to be a husband and wife who are struggling to have children.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what it looks like to be a grandma who has raised godly children.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what those things look like; so, that is one of the reasons why I gathered this group of women together.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe fourteen of us, basically, went through this process for a year of sitting down, looking at this biblical blueprint, digging it out, and how does it apply to you and you and you.\u00a0 Anybody who does the video series will see all of those things represented.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>(Audio excerpt from video series)<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman#1:<\/strong>\u00a0 My challenge is really going deep inside of me and seeking out what is God\u2019s calling and purpose for my life and how do I make sure that whatever favor or success He\u2019s given me in the context doesn\u2019t distract me from God\u2019s ultimate calling and purpose.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman#2:<\/strong>\u00a0 You are supposed to have an education.\u00a0 You are supposed to able to stand on your own two feet, be independent.\u00a0 That is what I grew up with.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman#3:<\/strong> To me, that\u2019s one of the biggest challenges: feeling like there is a part of myself, some of my God-given gifts and talents, that would be wasted in some way if I put them on hold.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t be able to regain that in the years to come.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman#4:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m very much single, but I\u2019m very much in a long term relationship that is leading towards marriage; and so, I don\u2019t know if I am allowed to make choices as a single or if I\u2019m not supposed to make choices as a single.\u00a0 (laughter)\u00a0 You know because\u2026.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman #5:<\/strong>\u00a0 My biggest challenge is balancing.\u00a0 I feel like I\u2019m always trying to\u2014it\u2019s a balancing act for me all the way around because I\u2019m a single mom.\u00a0 It is so hard just thinking\u2014getting my arms around what my biggest challenge is because we\u2019re always running, we\u2019re always doing stuff.\u00a0 Sleep, I get none.\u00a0 (laughter)\u00a0 I feel like it all needs to be done, and it is on me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman #6:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think my challenge is to harness the desires that I have.\u00a0 I have had a career, a career that I worked very hard in.\u00a0 I was very ambitious and had hoped to climb pretty high in the scale, but I knew at the bottom of my heart that God wanted me to be a mom.\u00a0 When it came time to be a mother, I knew what I believed in my heart the thing to do was to put that aside and give my children as much of me as they could have.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>(Audio from video ends)<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is the biggest mistake for us as Christians to try to say this one thing of how my life looks is how it is supposed to look for everybody because that is not the way that God works.\u00a0 He gives us this amazing diversity of gifts and talents.\u00a0 Some of us have circumstances that are not what we would want.\u00a0 It\u2019s still got to relate to a biblical framework that is unchanging.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 There is still a pillar in the midst of this\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That you\u2019ve got to point to and say, \u201cOkay, whatever it looks like\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s got to be anchored to that pillar.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s where you kept coming back and saying, \u201cWe do have a diversity of backgrounds, a diversity of economic situations, a diversity of life circumstances; but that pillar doesn\u2019t change\u2014\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cIn the midst of that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bob, that\u2019s what I\u2019m concerned about for a generation of young ladies growing up in this culture.\u00a0 They are hearing the message of the culture that they can have it all.\u00a0 When, that is a myth at best and a lie at worst.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They are not going to have it all.\u00a0 They\u2019re going to have to make choices about where they invest their time.\u00a0 That biblical anchor, that\u2019s what gives them the ability to make the tough choices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 That is what we have been missing.\u00a0 That is why I am so excited about this study because a lot of us don\u2019t realize that all of the stress that we feel like.\u00a0 Often it comes because we have all of these great opportunities, really fantastic things.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know how to choose between them.\u00a0 We really have to learn: how do I manage my life, how do I make good choices.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is stuff that we don\u2019t really even think about day to day; but there is a biblical model that has not changed.\u00a0 We look at the Bible; and we think, \u201cOh my gosh!\u00a0 Well, I know I want to live according to the Bible, but I don\u2019t see anything chapter and verse that says, \u2018Here\u2019s what Shaunti should do when she has this great opportunity versus that one.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBecause our world today as women looks completely different than it did when the Bible was written, but there is something that hasn\u2019t changed.\u00a0 That is God\u2019s design for us hasn\u2019t changed.\u00a0 The way He has designed us a women and as men, for that matter\u2014the way He has designed us hasn\u2019t changed.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur callings\u2014the fact that He has specific callings for the human race and for us as women and for us as individuals hasn\u2019t changed from thousands of years ago \u2018til today; so, we dig those callings out, that job description out.\u00a0 We organize our life that way and use it to make choices.\u00a0 Suddenly, we will have that feeling that we\u2019re thriving.\u00a0 We have peace, abundance, and delight; instead of this stress, juggling it all, and \u201chow do I not have enough hours in the day\u201d kind of feeling.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 The biblical grid that you\u2019re encouraging women to use in the <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> video series and in the book is a grid that comes right out of Genesis, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is.\u00a0 It is basically if we look at what our design and our callings are and if we\u2019re functioning according with that or not, it does come out of Genesis.\u00a0 First, let me mention that when I talk about functioning according to our design and our callings, we all know that every created thing has design specifications: something that it is created to do and stuff that it is created not to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLast year, I drove my van through some floods in Atlanta.\u00a0 My van is not designed as an amphibious vehicle, and it was not created for that.\u00a0 So, unfortunately, I totaled my van.\u00a0 That\u2019s an example.\u00a0 I was trying to make it do something it wasn\u2019t designed for; so, it broke down.\u00a0 That is the way we as women sometimes feel.\u00a0 We feel like we\u2019ve been totaled.\u00a0 We feel like we\u2019re breaking down.\u00a0 Well, maybe we\u2019re not designed to do what we\u2019re trying to do.\u00a0 We\u2019re not designed for that purpose.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, what is our design?\u00a0 What is our purpose?\u00a0 What are our callings?\u00a0 If you go all the way back to Genesis, you\u2019ll see.\u00a0 God, when He put Adam and Eve on the Earth, He gave us our design specs.\u00a0 He gave us our job description.\u00a0 He basically said no matter what else you do here are the three things you have been created to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said you\u2019ve been designed to leave and cleave.\u00a0 You know, leave father, mother; cleave to your wife.\u00a0 Of course, that applies in both ways.\u00a0 So, it is like you are designed to become sort of an independent individual.\u00a0 You\u2019re supposed to begin to step into maturity as a person and cleave: for us as women, to cleave to a man in a super-bond called marriage.\u00a0 There are all sorts of things that means.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, the next thing we are designed for is He says\u2014God says, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply.\u201d\u00a0 We are designed not just to have kids but to really raise up and nurture and be part of launching a godly next generation to fill the earth with people who\u2019ll look like God wants us to look.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe also says\u2014and this is really important for us as women because sometimes we think we are kind of limited to the first two: where, sort of, the church tells us that really you\u2019re kind of limited to these.\u00a0 That is not true at all.\u00a0 God turned to both Adam and Eve and said, \u201cYou are to subdue the earth and rule over it.\u201d\u00a0 So, we\u2019re designed for the third thing.\u00a0 The third part of our job description is to subdue and rule.\u00a0 That is to advance God\u2019s kingdom purposes on the earth beyond the home and into the world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEssentially, what is happening is if we miss any of those three parts of our job description and our design specifications, we are going to walk through and end our life looking back with regret or even looking back in five years with regret.\u00a0 It is because it\u2019s how we\u2019re created.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, that grid of looking, \u201cAm I leaving and cleaving? Am I being purposeful about \u2018be fruitful and multiply?\u2019\u00a0 Am I looking for opportunities to subdue and rule and advance God\u2019s kingdom purposes, whatever those might be, beyond the home and into the world?\u201d to the degree that I am flowing in those.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is going to look different at different parts of my life\u2014that is one of the other things we talk about\u2014to the degree that I\u2019m being purposeful about those.\u00a0 It will feel like life is fitting to the degree that I\u2019m not \u201cit will feel like life is breaking down.\u201d\u00a0 So, that biblical blueprint, it has many ramifications for us, but that is the starting point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2014that biblical blueprint can cost you, though\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 In terms of self-sacrifice.\u00a0 You told a story before we walked into the studio just about how you wanted to go snow skiing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 This is an example of how this works when you have to make choices to look at this biblical grid.\u00a0 I mean, I was actually out meeting with one of my publishers which is in Colorado Springs.\u00a0 It was April of all times, and a blizzard came up\u2014only in Colorado would that happen.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tReally what happened: it was a Friday afternoon.\u00a0 My kids had soccer games on Saturday, and I was supposed to be flying home on Friday; instead, it was like all the airlines we\u2019re saying, \u201cCan you volunteer to bumped and go out on Sunday instead?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of my friends at my publisher said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to have almost two feet of fresh snow.\u00a0 Come stay overnight.\u00a0 We\u2019ll take my 4x4 up into the mountains, and we\u2019ll go skiing for the day.\u201d\u00a0 I love skiing, and I don\u2019t get to do it enough because I have kids who are ten and seven years old.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And you live in Atlanta.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 And I live in Atlanta.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there aren\u2019t that many options for snow skiing in Atlanta.\u00a0 I would have loved to have done that, but I literally\u2014I was in the middle of working on this study for FamilyLife.\u00a0 I literally thought, \u201cOkay, leave and cleave, be fruitful and multiply, subdue and rule.\u00a0 How am I doing?\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m already doing pretty good on the subdue and rule thing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you wanted to rule those slopes that weekend.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh man, I did!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI really, really did.\u00a0 You know, I look at this, and I already have all these ministry opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0 I have great opportunities to expand God\u2019s kingdom, hopefully, beyond my home; but for me, the area I need to work on is \u201cbe fruitful and multiply\u201d and make sure that I\u2019m pouring into my kids just as much as I\u2019m pouring into the next women\u2019s conference, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, I literally thought about this and said, \u201cThat\u2019s where I really need to make sure that I\u2019m focusing.\u201d\u00a0 So, I told my friend, \u201cYou know, I would love to go skiing, but I\u2019m going to have to take you up on that in about ten years.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s where it works individually: imagine that instead of being in my shoes.\u00a0 Imagine it was a stay at home mom who is being given that choice.\u00a0 Imagine that she is already doing a fantastic job of \u201cbe fruitful and multiply.\u201d\u00a0 She is with her kids all day long and that she has an opportunity to speak into the life of this coworker at this publisher who is struggling with stuff and is worried about her marriage.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe might make a difference choice in the interest of \u201csubdue and rule.\u201d\u00a0 She might say, \u201cThis is an opportunity for me to speak into this woman\u2019s life and advance God\u2019s kingdom in that way.\u201d\u00a0 Because she is already doing an excellent job of \u201cbe fruitful and multiply;\u201d so, she might make a different choice, but it is the same biblical grid.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Is there a hierarchy to that grid?\u00a0 Do you look at it and say, \u201cOkay, this is got to happen and this one\u2019s optional or not?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that God has spelled it out in quite that way, but I think all of us know that first and foremost we\u2019re designed to have relationship with the Lord.\u00a0 First and foremost, that has to be our priority.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think all of us also see in all of the other books of the Bible that there is an emphasis on marriage.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t get that right then everything else kind of falls apart, unfortunately.\u00a0 That said, remember: because we are designed to do all three of them, to some degrees, we can get a sense for how we\u2019re doing on that and how we\u2019re not doing on that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLike the stay at home mom who is already doing a great job on \u201cbe fruitful and multiply,\u201d maybe she looks at it and says, \u201cWell, instead of speaking into the life of my coworker, I need to get home.\u00a0 It is not necessarily just for my kids, but I haven\u2019t spent any time with my husband in the last week.\u00a0 He\u2019s going through stuff at work, and he needs me now.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, again, it is going to be individual for every woman.\u00a0 That is what I love about how God has designed us because we all have this wonderful uniqueness.\u00a0 We can all learn from the way that He\u2019s designed us how to function with that rather than at odds with that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What I hear you saying, Shaunti, is if we\u2019ll follow God\u2019s design for being a woman or for being a man, there is great liberty\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And life\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 In those choices; but if we don\u2019t know what that design looks like and we can\u2019t live life on purpose, then this culture and the lure of having it all\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Can seduce us.\u00a0 That is dangerous.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think it is so healthy for women to be able to get together with other women and have an island of clarity on stuff like this over a period of weeks like what you\u2019ve designed in <em>The<\/em> <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> video series.\u00a0 Just getting together with other women, listening to what you present, having an opportunity to interact, and to work through it and apply it, I think a lot of women are going to find this very helpful.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think a lot of women\u2019s groups at local churches are going to find this material is\u2014well, it is something that every woman in the church can relate to.\u00a0 It is going to help build stronger marriages and stronger families in your local church.\u00a0\u00a0 You can find out more about <em>The LifeReady Woman<\/em> video series that has been produced by FamilyLife when you go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is a video clip available there that you to watch.\u00a0 There\u2019s more information about the video series.\u00a0 You can go online at FamilyLifeToday.com for more information.\u00a0 Or you can call us toll-free at 1-800-FL-Today, 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That is 1-800, F as in \u201cfamily\u201d, L as in \u201clife\u201d, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 We can answer any questions you have about the series, or we can make arrangements to get the DVD\u2019s sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, much of what we have talked about today is also in a book that Shaunti has written with Robert Lewis called <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em>.\u00a0 If you can help FamilyLife this week with a donation of any amount, we\u2019d love to send you a copy of that book.\u00a0 It is the brand new <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> book by Shaunti Feldhahn and Robert Lewis.\u00a0 It is our way of saying thank you this week when you support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> with a donation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo online at FamilyLifeToday.com and make your donation on our online donation form.\u00a0 Type the word \u201cREADY\u201d into the key code box that you see on the donation form, and we\u2019ll know to send you a copy of the <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> book.\u00a0 Or call 1-800-FL-Today, make a donation over the phone, and just ask for the <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> book; and we\u2019ll send it to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me just say how much we appreciate your financial support.\u00a0 We are listener supported.\u00a0 If it weren\u2019t for you pitching in from time to time to help with these financial needs, this program could not continue.\u00a0 So, we appreciate your support of this ministry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to encourage you to join us back here again tomorrow.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to continue talking about how a woman can align her priorities and take faith steps that will help her define the life that God intends for her to live.\u00a0 That\u2019s coming up tomorrow, and I hope you can join us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back tomorrow for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts. 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your life a juggling act?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2011-02-28.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Last year, I drove my van through some floods in Atlanta.\u00a0 My van is not created for that; so, unfortunately, I totaled my van.\u00a0 I was trying to make it do something it wasn\u2019t designed for; so, it broke down.\u00a0 We, as women, sometimes feel like we\u2019ve been totaled.\u00a0 We feel like we\u2019re breaking down.\u00a0 Well, maybe we\u2019re not designed to do what we\u2019re trying to do.\u00a0 We\u2019re not designed for that purpose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Monday, February 28<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 So, what exactly is God\u2019s design for womanhood and what\u2019s broken?\u00a0 We\u2019re going to talk about that today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>; thanks for joining us.\u00a0 You know this is going to stir some things up, don\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is going to ruffle some feathers.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you\u2019re okay with that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hey, I think if there\u2019s ever been a day when there needed to be some good, clear biblical teaching and instruction with compassion for women, it is today.\u00a0 Fortunately, you and I are not the ones\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019re going to be providing that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That might make it a little difficult to choke down if they\u2019re having to hear from you and me; so, we invited Shaunti Feldhahn to join us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Put her in the firing line.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think, you know\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks, guys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What better person to bring in here and to say, \u201cOkay, Shaunti, speak the truth in love.\u201d\u00a0 Welcome back to the broadcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is good to be with you, I think.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You think.\u00a0 Well, our listeners recognize her because of her book, <em>For Women Only<\/em>.\u00a0 She has been teaming up with FamilyLife and Robert Lewis here at FamilyLife around a new project called <em>The LifeReady Woman<\/em>.\u00a0 Now, Shaunti explain to our listeners what <em>The LifeReady Woman<\/em> project is all about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I think the subtitle actually says it all because the subtitle is \u201cThriving in a Do It All World.\u201d\u00a0 Basically, what it is, is helping women see a biblical blueprint for how we balance our lives as modern women.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019ve done that in a book that you and Robert have co-written\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Correct.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But there is also a curriculum that you put together?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 There is a video driven study that women can do like the Bible studies that many women do each spring, fall, summer, whatever.\u00a0 It is an eight session study where it is a teaching time and a small group discussion time.\u00a0 The whole point is to bring women of all ages and stages of life: different demographic backgrounds, stay-at-home moms, executives.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody can benefit from seeing what the Bible says about how we as modern women really organize our lives; so that, we do have this sense of thriving in abundance and peace rather than the stress and the \u201chow do I get through life.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was thinking where Bob was going as he asked you that question and he\u2014when he said, \u201cNow, you\u2019ve done that.\u201d\u00a0 He went on to talk about the video series that has been created for women, but you\u2019ve also done it in real life because you\u2019re a graduate of Harvard.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been a writer for a major newspaper, you are a mom of two, you\u2019ve got one husband that you\u2019re juggling all of life, and you\u2019re living this right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So, you\u2019ve thrived in a do it all world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m the guinea pig.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m the study actually.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I\u2019m definitely the guinea pig.\u00a0 I have a husband of sixteen years and two kids who are seven and ten years old.\u00a0 I have a thriving ministry of traveling and speaking and writing these books and soccer runs\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 And church activities and everything else that every other woman juggles.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Most women who are juggling it find themselves at least at some point going, \u201cYou can\u2019t do it all\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cAnd quit trying to tell me I can.\u00a0 I\u2019m dying under the pile.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Well, this is actually one of the things that is, I think, one of the key principles for women to start with.\u00a0 When we start figuring out, \u201cOkay, what is this biblical blueprint look like,\u201d one of the key principles is to confront some of these myths that we believe.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of those myths is the idea that you can have it all or at least have it all, all at the same time.\u00a0 We\u2019re not designed to be able to have it all, all at the same time.\u00a0 It is killing us when we try.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That is what I want to talk about for a moment.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say Bob and I had the ability to go back and interview you right after you\u2019d walked across the stage and received your diploma from Harvard; and we said, \u201cShaunti, we want to sit down.\u00a0 We just want to get your perspective of what a real woman is, what God\u2019s woman is all about.\u201d\u00a0 What would we have heard from at that moment from you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Were you a believer when you graduated?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was.\u00a0 Yes\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 So, you were\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I had been a believer for three or four years at that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Committed to Christ.\u00a0 You wanted to live your life to honor Him, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Harvard helped\u2014helped anchor you biblically\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, immensely as you can imagine.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Around what a woman is to be, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s just say that the Christian fellowship group there and the people there had slightly different opinions than all my classmates about what things should look like.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 So, what would you have said?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I probably would have said, \u201cOh, yes.\u00a0 I can have it all.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to have the husband and the kids; I\u2019m going to have the thriving business; I\u2019m going to grow organic food; and I\u2019m going to make all of our clothes.\u00a0 I\u2019m to do it all and go to the gym every morning and be a size six.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo according to sort of what you think growing up in this culture it does feel like that is what your life is supposed to look like, which is one of the reasons why there are so many women who just feel guilty all the time.\u00a0 Or they feel incredibly stressed, torn, and burdened; and it\u2019s because we are trying to fit into this mold that, really, is impossible for anybody: man or woman.\u00a0 Men aren\u2019t designed to be able to do it all, all at the same time either.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the things I did a number of years ago was teach a sixth grade Sunday school class.\u00a0 I would occasionally ask the young ladies, \u201cWhat do you want do, what do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d\u00a0 After a few years of hearing this\u2014now again, mind you, this was more than a decade ago; so, we\u2019re talking about, really, not recently because things have changed a bit since ten years ago.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I began to ask them that question, a number of them would say, \u201cJob, success.\u201d Virtually none of them talked about being a wife\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Being a mother.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Investing in the next generation.\u00a0 It is not that you can\u2019t do both because when we did decide to do this video Bible study series for women, we chose you.\u00a0 You\u2019re juggling a lot of things.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Women do work.\u00a0 They do raise kids in the process, but the problem is this culture is not really training young ladies to be a wife and a mom.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 In fact, you sat down with a diverse group of women.\u00a0 I think there were fourteen in your group.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You quizzed them, asked them a bunch of questions, and just got a lot of feedback as a part of the process for this.\u00a0 What did you learn from them?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is one of the things that, to me, was the most important sort of foundational piece of how this was going to work to create a study that worked for all women.\u00a0 This is one of the things, honesty, I think the Christian community has struggled with in trying to put together books and Bible studies because we tend to sort of automatically want to fit into this white, suburban, Evangelical, living in the Suburbs mold.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m in my early forties, and I can tell you how this applies to me as an early forties, white, suburban, Evangelical, conservative Christian.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what looks like to try to be a biblical woman who is a black, single mom in the inner city.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what it looks like to be a husband and wife who are struggling to have children.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what it looks like to be a grandma who has raised godly children.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what those things look like; so, that is one of the reasons why I gathered this group of women together.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe fourteen of us, basically, went through this process for a year of sitting down, looking at this biblical blueprint, digging it out, and how does it apply to you and you and you.\u00a0 Anybody who does the video series will see all of those things represented.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>(Audio excerpt from video series)<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman#1:<\/strong>\u00a0 My challenge is really going deep inside of me and seeking out what is God\u2019s calling and purpose for my life and how do I make sure that whatever favor or success He\u2019s given me in the context doesn\u2019t distract me from God\u2019s ultimate calling and purpose.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman#2:<\/strong>\u00a0 You are supposed to have an education.\u00a0 You are supposed to able to stand on your own two feet, be independent.\u00a0 That is what I grew up with.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman#3:<\/strong> To me, that\u2019s one of the biggest challenges: feeling like there is a part of myself, some of my 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me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Woman #6:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think my challenge is to harness the desires that I have.\u00a0 I have had a career, a career that I worked very hard in.\u00a0 I was very ambitious and had hoped to climb pretty high in the scale, but I knew at the bottom of my heart that God wanted me to be a mom.\u00a0 When it came time to be a mother, I knew what I believed in my heart the thing to do was to put that aside and give my children as much of me as they could have.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>(Audio from video ends)<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is the biggest mistake for us as Christians to try to say this one thing of how my life looks is how it is supposed to look for everybody because that is not the way that God works.\u00a0 He gives us this amazing diversity of gifts and talents.\u00a0 Some of us have circumstances that are not what we would want.\u00a0 It\u2019s still got to relate to a biblical framework that is unchanging.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 There is still a pillar in the midst of this\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That you\u2019ve got to point to and say, \u201cOkay, whatever it looks like\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s got to be anchored to that pillar.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s where you kept coming back and saying, \u201cWe do have a diversity of backgrounds, a diversity of economic situations, a diversity of life circumstances; but that pillar doesn\u2019t change\u2014\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cIn the midst of that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bob, that\u2019s what I\u2019m concerned about for a generation of young ladies growing up in this culture.\u00a0 They are hearing the message of the culture that they can have it all.\u00a0 When, that is a myth at best and a lie at worst.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They are not going to have it all.\u00a0 They\u2019re going to have to make choices about where they invest their time.\u00a0 That biblical anchor, that\u2019s what gives them the ability to make the tough choices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 That is what we have been missing.\u00a0 That is why I am so excited about this study because a lot of us don\u2019t realize that all of the stress that we feel like.\u00a0 Often it comes because we have all of these great opportunities, really fantastic things.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know how to choose between them.\u00a0 We really have to learn: how do I manage my life, how do I make good choices.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is stuff that we don\u2019t really even think about day to day; but there is a biblical model that has not changed.\u00a0 We look at the Bible; and we think, \u201cOh my gosh!\u00a0 Well, I know I want to live according to the Bible, but I don\u2019t see anything chapter and verse that says, \u2018Here\u2019s what Shaunti should do when she has this great opportunity versus that one.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBecause our world today as women looks completely different than it did when the Bible was written, but there is something that hasn\u2019t changed.\u00a0 That is God\u2019s design for us hasn\u2019t changed.\u00a0 The way He has designed us a women and as men, for that matter\u2014the way He has designed us hasn\u2019t changed.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur callings\u2014the fact that He has specific callings for the human race and for us as women and for us as individuals hasn\u2019t changed from thousands of years ago \u2018til today; so, we dig those callings out, that job description out.\u00a0 We organize our life that way and use it to make choices.\u00a0 Suddenly, we will have that feeling that we\u2019re thriving.\u00a0 We have peace, abundance, and delight; instead of this stress, juggling it all, and \u201chow do I not have enough hours in the day\u201d kind of feeling.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 The biblical grid that you\u2019re encouraging women to use in the <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> video series and in the book is a grid that comes right out of Genesis, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is.\u00a0 It is basically if we look at what our design and our callings are and if we\u2019re functioning according with that or not, it does come out of Genesis.\u00a0 First, let me mention that when I talk about functioning according to our design and our callings, we all know that every created thing has design specifications: something that it is created to do and stuff that it is created not to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLast year, I drove my van through some floods in Atlanta.\u00a0 My van is not designed as an amphibious vehicle, and it was not created for that.\u00a0 So, unfortunately, I totaled my van.\u00a0 That\u2019s an example.\u00a0 I was trying to make it do something it wasn\u2019t designed for; so, it broke down.\u00a0 That is the way we as women sometimes feel.\u00a0 We feel like we\u2019ve been totaled.\u00a0 We feel like we\u2019re breaking down.\u00a0 Well, maybe we\u2019re not designed to do what we\u2019re trying to do.\u00a0 We\u2019re not designed for that purpose.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, what is our design?\u00a0 What is our purpose?\u00a0 What are our callings?\u00a0 If you go all the way back to Genesis, you\u2019ll see.\u00a0 God, when He put Adam and Eve on the Earth, He gave us our design specs.\u00a0 He gave us our job description.\u00a0 He basically said no matter what else you do here are the three things you have been created to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said you\u2019ve been designed to leave and cleave.\u00a0 You know, leave father, mother; cleave to your wife.\u00a0 Of course, that applies in both ways.\u00a0 So, it is like you are designed to become sort of an independent individual.\u00a0 You\u2019re supposed to begin to step into maturity as a person and cleave: for us as women, to cleave to a man in a super-bond called marriage.\u00a0 There are all sorts of things that means.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, the next thing we are designed for is He says\u2014God says, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply.\u201d\u00a0 We are designed not just to have kids but to really raise up and nurture and be part of launching a godly next generation to fill the earth with people who\u2019ll look like God wants us to look.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe also says\u2014and this is really important for us as women because sometimes we think we are kind of limited to the first two: where, sort of, the church tells us that really you\u2019re kind of limited to these.\u00a0 That is not true at all.\u00a0 God turned to both Adam and Eve and said, \u201cYou are to subdue the earth and rule over it.\u201d\u00a0 So, we\u2019re designed for the third thing.\u00a0 The third part of our job description is to subdue and rule.\u00a0 That is to advance God\u2019s kingdom purposes on the earth beyond the home and into the world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEssentially, what is happening is if we miss any of those three parts of our job description and our design specifications, we are going to walk through and end our life looking back with regret or even looking back in five years with regret.\u00a0 It is because it\u2019s how we\u2019re created.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, that grid of looking, \u201cAm I leaving and cleaving? Am I being purposeful about \u2018be fruitful and multiply?\u2019\u00a0 Am I looking for opportunities to subdue and rule and advance God\u2019s kingdom purposes, whatever those might be, beyond the home and into the world?\u201d to the degree that I am flowing in those.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is going to look different at different parts of my life\u2014that is one of the other things we talk about\u2014to the degree that I\u2019m being purposeful about those.\u00a0 It will feel like life is fitting to the degree that I\u2019m not \u201cit will feel like life is breaking down.\u201d\u00a0 So, that biblical blueprint, it has many ramifications for us, but that is the starting point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2014that biblical blueprint can cost you, though\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 In terms of self-sacrifice.\u00a0 You told a story before we walked into the studio just about how you wanted to go snow skiing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 This is an example of how this works when you have to make choices to look at this biblical grid.\u00a0 I mean, I was actually out meeting with one of my publishers which is in Colorado Springs.\u00a0 It was April of all times, and a blizzard came up\u2014only in Colorado would that happen.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tReally what happened: it was a Friday afternoon.\u00a0 My kids had soccer games on Saturday, and I was supposed to be flying home on Friday; instead, it was like all the airlines we\u2019re saying, \u201cCan you volunteer to bumped and go out on Sunday instead?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of my friends at my publisher said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to have almost two feet of fresh snow.\u00a0 Come stay overnight.\u00a0 We\u2019ll take my 4x4 up into the mountains, and we\u2019ll go skiing for the day.\u201d\u00a0 I love skiing, and I don\u2019t get to do it enough because I have kids who are ten and seven years old.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And you live in Atlanta.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 And I live in Atlanta.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there aren\u2019t that many options for snow skiing in Atlanta.\u00a0 I would have loved to have done that, but I literally\u2014I was in the middle of working on this study for FamilyLife.\u00a0 I literally thought, \u201cOkay, leave and cleave, be fruitful and multiply, subdue and rule.\u00a0 How am I doing?\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m already doing pretty good on the subdue and rule thing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you wanted to rule those slopes that weekend.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh man, I did!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI really, really did.\u00a0 You know, I look at this, and I already have all these ministry opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0 I have great opportunities to expand God\u2019s kingdom, hopefully, beyond my home; but for me, the area I need to work on is \u201cbe fruitful and multiply\u201d and make sure that I\u2019m pouring into my kids just as much as I\u2019m pouring into the next women\u2019s conference, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, I literally thought about this and said, \u201cThat\u2019s where I really need to make sure that I\u2019m focusing.\u201d\u00a0 So, I told my friend, \u201cYou know, I would love to go skiing, but I\u2019m going to have to take you up on that in about ten years.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s where it works individually: imagine that instead of being in my shoes.\u00a0 Imagine it was a stay at home mom who is being given that choice.\u00a0 Imagine that she is already doing a fantastic job of \u201cbe fruitful and multiply.\u201d\u00a0 She is with her kids all day long and that she has an opportunity to speak into the life of this coworker at this publisher who is struggling with stuff and is worried about her marriage.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe might make a difference choice in the interest of \u201csubdue and rule.\u201d\u00a0 She might say, \u201cThis is an opportunity for me to speak into this woman\u2019s life and advance God\u2019s kingdom in that way.\u201d\u00a0 Because she is already doing an excellent job of \u201cbe fruitful and multiply;\u201d so, she might make a different choice, but it is the same biblical grid.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Is there a hierarchy to that grid?\u00a0 Do you look at it and say, \u201cOkay, this is got to happen and this one\u2019s optional or not?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that God has spelled it out in quite that way, but I think all of us know that first and foremost we\u2019re designed to have relationship with the Lord.\u00a0 First and foremost, that has to be our priority.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think all of us also see in all of the other books of the Bible that there is an emphasis on marriage.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t get that right then everything else kind of falls apart, unfortunately.\u00a0 That said, remember: because we are designed to do all three of them, to some degrees, we can get a sense for how we\u2019re doing on that and how we\u2019re not doing on that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLike the stay at home mom who is already doing a great job on \u201cbe fruitful and multiply,\u201d maybe she looks at it and says, \u201cWell, instead of speaking into the life of my coworker, I need to get home.\u00a0 It is not necessarily just for my kids, but I haven\u2019t spent any time with my husband in the last week.\u00a0 He\u2019s going through stuff at work, and he needs me now.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, again, it is going to be individual for every woman.\u00a0 That is what I love about how God has designed us because we all have this wonderful uniqueness.\u00a0 We can all learn from the way that He\u2019s designed us how to function with that rather than at odds with that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What I hear you saying, Shaunti, is if we\u2019ll follow God\u2019s design for being a woman or for being a man, there is great liberty\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And life\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 In those choices; but if we don\u2019t know what that design looks like and we can\u2019t live life on purpose, then this culture and the lure of having it all\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shaunti:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Can seduce us.\u00a0 That is dangerous.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think it is so healthy for women to be able to get together with other women and have an island of clarity on stuff like this over a period of weeks like what you\u2019ve designed in <em>The<\/em> <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> video series.\u00a0 Just getting together with other women, listening to what you present, having an opportunity to interact, and to work through it and apply it, I think a lot of women are going to find this very helpful.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think a lot of women\u2019s groups at local churches are going to find this material is\u2014well, it is something that every woman in the church can relate to.\u00a0 It is going to help build stronger marriages and stronger families in your local church.\u00a0\u00a0 You can find out more about <em>The LifeReady Woman<\/em> video series that has been produced by FamilyLife when you go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is a video clip available there that you to watch.\u00a0 There\u2019s more information about the video series.\u00a0 You can go online at FamilyLifeToday.com for more information.\u00a0 Or you can call us toll-free at 1-800-FL-Today, 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That is 1-800, F as in \u201cfamily\u201d, L as in \u201clife\u201d, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 We can answer any questions you have about the series, or we can make arrangements to get the DVD\u2019s sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, much of what we have talked about today is also in a book that Shaunti has written with Robert Lewis called <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em>.\u00a0 If you can help FamilyLife this week with a donation of any amount, we\u2019d love to send you a copy of that book.\u00a0 It is the brand new <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> book by Shaunti Feldhahn and Robert Lewis.\u00a0 It is our way of saying thank you this week when you support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> with a donation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo online at FamilyLifeToday.com and make your donation on our online donation form.\u00a0 Type the word \u201cREADY\u201d into the key code box that you see on the donation form, and we\u2019ll know to send you a copy of the <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> book.\u00a0 Or call 1-800-FL-Today, make a donation over the phone, and just ask for the <em>LifeReady Woman<\/em> book; 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