{"id":303878,"date":"2016-02-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/embrace-this-season-of-life\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:00:00","slug":"embrace-this-season-of-life","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/embrace-this-season-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace This Season of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>guest: Priscilla Shirer | Series: The Resolution for Women | Are you savoring today, or anxiously awaiting tomorrow? Priscilla Shirer, a wife and mother of three, challenges women to embrace this season of life, whatever that may be, and resist the urge to hurry through today. 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Priscilla Shirer says, \u201cHere is where a woman ought to begin.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>I think that we will find our greatest blessing and our greatest joy, not in finding success <em>outside<\/em> of our families, but finding it in all the seeds that we plant today and invest today in the lives of our children and in the lives of our spouses\u2014that we get to see that harvest returned to us 20 to 30 years from now. I have <em>never<\/em> heard a mother\u2014that is now in retirement age\u2014I have <em>never<\/em> heard her say, \u201cI wish I would have spent more time working.\u201d They <em>all<\/em> say to me: \u201cOh Priscilla, you better enjoy this time when your kids are young. I wish I could do that one more time.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Thursday, February 18<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I am Bob Lepine. Priscilla Shirer joins us today to help women think about how to rightly align their lives. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today. <\/em>Thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition. Whenever we tackle an issue that relates to men\u2014and we do that from time to time\u2014 where you will get in guys\u2019 faces and kind of stir them up about being men; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: I will put my arm around them before I get in their face, but yes. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>: Whenever we do it, we invariably get a few notes \/ a few emails from guys, who are saying: \u201cWhy are you guys always picking on us, as men? Why are you men-bashing? When are you going to turn your attention to the women? When are you going to let them\u2014I mean, they are not doing everything right.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So we are women-bashing today? [Laughter] We are inviting some fresh emails and letters; aren\u2019t we?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and we don\u2019t want to get in the women\u2019s face, and we don\u2019t even want to put our arms around them; but we will let somebody else do that. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We are going to play a little softball here and just slow-pitch to Priscilla Shirer. Priscilla, welcome to the broadcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Thank you so much for having me on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Priscilla is well-known to our listening audience. She and her husband Jerry work in a ministry called Going Beyond Ministries. She has written a book called <em>The Resolution for Women<\/em>. This is about 13 resolutions that you are challenging women to consider.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>: Well, and we should say you wrote this book back when the movie, <em>Courageous<\/em>, was coming out in the theaters. There\u2019s a scene in the movie where men, at the end, stand and make a declaration that they are going to be courageous men \/ they\u2019re going to be the men that God\u2019s called them to be. This book was written to coincide with that movie coming out. Although there\u2019s not a parallel scene where women do the same thing, there was a desire to challenge women concurrent with challenging men. Tell our listeners how all of that came about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Well, the Kendrick brothers and the people that worked with the picture\u2014they just thought that it was an injustice not to also equip women that had gone to that movie\u2014were inspired, not only with the resolutions they prayed that their husbands, and sons, and fathers would be making in their lives\u2014but felt encouraged and inspired themselves to make resolutions that will begin to affect them personally, as a woman, but then also in their position as a wife or as a mother. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s been a treat really to kind of just come alongside of them. They called me up and said, \u201cHey, would you partner with us so that there is a resource that can equip women, as well, to make resolutions in their own lives?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You are really calling women to take a step back and really evaluate their lives and then chart a new course, moving forward. That is going to result in some women being, I think, freshly teachable and wanting to excel still more in their responsibilities as a woman, wife, mother, perhaps a single person.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And the book lists those 13 resolutions. Bob doesn\u2019t like me doing this; but is there a fundamental or one of the resolutions that you would consider to be\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is like, \u201cWhich one of your kids do you like the best?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes, that\u2019s <em>hard<\/em>; but I can answer this question only because I will tell you the one, for me, that is the absolute most challenging. I am going to read it right out of the book because I want to get it exactly right. This one, I will tell you\u2014it was not supposed to be the first section in the book; and then, as I went through it and I got to this one, I said, \u201cThis has <em>got<\/em> to be number one because it doesn\u2019t matter if you are single or married, if you have children or if you do not, this is one that is just going to resonate with you in your life.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo the very first resolution of the book says this: \u201cI do solemnly resolve to embrace my current season of life and will maximize my time in it. I will resist the urge to hurry through or circumvent any portion of my journey but will live with the spirit of contentment.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, wherever you are and whatever season of life you are in, that\u2019s going to strike a chord with you because you can either choose to fully engage\u2014you know, how you can be there, but not really be there? We go through so much of the seasons of our life really not fully engaged in where we are. We are looking forward to the next thing before we fully completed the thing we are <em>in<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's interesting how you don\u2019t realize the blessings of where you are most of the time until you are not there anymore, and then, that season of life has passed you by. If I am a mother of small children\u2014which I am\u2014I need to fully engage. It's difficult too\u2014\u201cThe years\u201d\u2014they say\u2014\u201care short, but them days sure are long!\u201d So I have got to choose, \u201cAm I going to fully engage in this season of life and <em>choose<\/em> contentment right where I am?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo single woman\u2014you have got to choose contentment right where you are. Married, and don\u2019t have children yet? Maybe it's even a struggle for you\u2014you want children, but the doctor is saying, \u201cIt's going to be a struggle.\u201d Well, you have got to <em>choose <\/em>contentment even in that difficulty. It\u2019s a choice and a resolution that we have to make. It\u2019s a <em>skill<\/em> that Paul said he had to learn, \u201cI had to <em>learn<\/em> the secret of contentment.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And to that point, Priscilla, it\u2019s not just a matter of making an act of the will, \u201cI\u2019m going to be content.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You\u2019re talking about <em>learning<\/em> something from the Scriptures and from the Spirit of God as you face your circumstances. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat must a single woman, married woman, a mom\u2014maybe who\u2019s surrounded by some rug-rats, just pulling and tugging away\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>I love that\u2014rug-rats.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>They just take a lot of life from you. You can look around and compare your life with other people. How does a woman maintain commitment? What does she need to learn?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Well, it\u2019s very interesting because you just hit the nail on one of the heads that we really need to be concentrating on, and that is the issue of comparison. Most of the time, our lack of contentment is due to the fact that we are comparing our current circumstances with what we see other people facing. We don\u2019t have blinders on like a horse that has been\u2014like those horse-drawn carriages, where you will see the horse has blinders on each side of his eyes\u2014that\u2019s because the driver wants to know that they are not distracted by what\u2019s happening on the right and the left because that can cause them to get off of their course. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have to realize and understand and trust the fact that God does have a course for us and that He\u2019s not shocked by the stuff that has shocked us in our life. He\u2019s not shocked. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe had this whole thing planned\u2014Jeremiah 1: 5 says, \u201cBefore we even came out of the womb, He was on it with our lives.\u201d So we have to decide: \u201cWill we put the blinders on?\u201d\u2014not compare what our circumstance looks like in comparison to other people\u2019s circumstance\u2014just believe that we are on the track that God has for us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Was there ever a time in your life when you had to narrow the blinders?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Absolutely! In fact, it\u2019s not going to be something we just wake up one day and we\u2019re done. It\u2019s going to be a journey. So this issue of contentment is something that in every season of life I am sure will be a struggle for me. It will be something I\u2019ll have to <em>constantly<\/em> remind myself daily, \u201cToday, I need to be content with what is happening today, this week, this month,\u201d and not try to hurry up through this week because it\u2019s such a busy week. Not hurry up through it because, in our attempts to miss the parts that we don\u2019t like, we end up missing the parts that we do like. We don\u2019t even get the good stuff when we try to sleep through the bad stuff\u2014you know, \u201cHurry up because this is a difficulty that we want to miss.\u201d But you\u2019ve also just missed the birthdays of your kids, you\u2019ve also missed this year of marriage with your husband, you\u2019ve missed this birthday. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI start the book talking about my 36<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was the only 36<sup>th<\/sup> year that I would ever have. If I rush through it because, \u201cI can\u2019t wait until my kids are teenagers,\u201d well then, I\u2019ve also missed my 36<sup>th<\/sup> year. It\u2019s the only one I\u2019ll ever get to experience in my whole life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You talked about this being foundational. I guess I have two questions. One is: \u201cDo you think contentment is more of an issue for women than it is for men?\u201d Then secondly, \u201cHow have you had to wrestle with it?\u201d You say you are going to have to wrestle with it at every age of life; but as you were working on this book, you were freshly aware that this is an issue for you. How did that manifest itself?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Innately, I don\u2019t think that it is more of an issue for women than for men. I think human beings, in general, have a tendency to compare themselves to what they see happening around them. We can trace this all the way back to the Book of Haggai. They are rebuilding the temple. Someone stands back and says, \u201cDoes anybody think that what we are doing now is <em>anything<\/em> to be compared with what would have been Solomon\u2019s temple?\u201d So they stop working on their current project because they are so busy reminding themselves of the <em>beautiful<\/em> work that <em>used to be.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>The \u201cgood old days.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>The \u201cgood old days.\u201d It keeps them from building. Then, God finally says to them: \u201cI am going to put My Spirit upon you. Would you just work? And I promise you, that the latter glory will be greater than the former glory.\u201d So, I think it's a human issue. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn the other hand, we live in a culture that, I think, perpetuates it in a different and unique way in women. I think men have it, too, with success and other areas of life\u2014 drive and ambition in terms of their careers. I just think that it is perpetuated in a different way with women\u2014some in the same ways because success is not described as \u201cstaying at home with your kids,\u201d in this day and age, in some circles. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo to make that choice\u2014there is a sacrifice to make that choice. We still have to choose, again, to put the blinders on whatever our choice is going to be \/ whatever we are choosing to do for our lives, whether\u2014again, that\u2019s just an illustration\u2014but whether we stay home with our children or not. If we live in a way that is honoring to God, whatever that means for you and your family, you have to put blinders on so that, when the culture is saying something contrary to your decision, you are still choosing to go with God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u00a0So how has that been fresh for you as you were working on this book?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Well, in a number of ways. In our ministry, there are many opportunities that we have to do things that are <em>extraordinary<\/em> opportunities\u2014to stand in front of groups of people in nations that are far off and to teach God\u2019s Word to them, there are opportunities to be a part of writing materials and books, and participating in conferences with people whom we all admire. Most of the time \/ 80 percent of the time, I have to say, \u201cNo.\u201d The reason is because, while in some people\u2019s view that would cause me to be propelled to whatever kind of status would be considered successful, I know that there is a season of life that I am in right now that I cannot do both of those things and be successful at the main thing, which is making sure that I am a mom to my boys and that I am a wife to the husband God has given me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's just being content with this season; and again, seasons change. There is an investment you make in one season, choosing to be content where you are; and again, I am so not perfect at that. I have got so much work to do in that area; and yet, it\u2019s just a journey that the Lord bolsters us through.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I think contentment comes as a result of us placing faith in the God who does order our steps and does call us to make heroic choices. This book you have put together is a call for heroism in women. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s true.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You faced a decision when you were working for Zig Ziglar, speaking nationwide. There really came a crossroads, as I understand it, for you, where you had to decide, \u201cWhich fork in the road am I going to take?\u201d\u2014a key step of faith for you that demanded courage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes. It was right out of college that the Zig Ziglar Corporation<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> called and asked if I would come and lead a Bible study. They have a Monday morning Bible study every week. I came in, fresh out of college, did a Bible study and got a call that afternoon asking if I would be one of their\u2014they have a handful \/ maybe five speakers that will go out and do motivational sessions or teach Zig\u2019s curriculum. For about eight to ten years, I did that. I was kind of just one of Zig\u2019s few speakers that would go out from his company, and I enjoyed it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember standing in front of AT&amp;T<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or Coca-Cola<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or some of these big companies. I am talking to them about Zig\u2019s curriculum, positive mental attitude, or customer service skills. All the while, I am thinking to myself, \u201cBut are you saved?\u201d\u2014that\u2019s what I wanted to ask them. I wanted to know, \u201cI hope your attitude\u2019s right,\u201d but I also want to know, \u201cAre you going to heaven?\u201d That\u2019s not what the people at Coca-Cola hired me to come in and do. [Laughter] So I had to be very careful, obviously; but I remember the Lord using that time to <em>stir<\/em> in me a desire for ministry. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere was a hunger \/ there was a passion to want to open the Bible with people. It just didn\u2019t make sense because I was fairly successful doing that\u2014it paid the bills \/ there was a financial reward for doing that. So yes, it took courage. I will be honest with you and say that I hesitated and procrastinated in making that decision for quite some time. So it wasn\u2019t until probably three or four years after I first felt that gnawing of God to completely finish with that and move fully into ministry that I actually said, \u201cOkay,\u201d and did it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u00a0Yes. And Priscilla, you wonder what kind of hangs in the balance as someone contemplates a decision like that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I mean, because God\u2019s placing upon your heart and upon your life, a call; and at that moment, you have to be obedient to fulfill that call. Now, looking back over it\u2014how many years since you made that decision?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Oh gosh; it's been at least a decade, if not more.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Was it the right choice?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>It was <em>so <\/em>the right choice!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And that is the will of God\u2014it's \u201cgood, acceptable, and perfect\u201d [from Romans 12: 2]. It comes about as a result of placing faith in God and you are stepping out, many times, not seeing what the future has \/ not knowing what the result\u2019s going to be\u2014but you are trusting God. That\u2019s the call of Scripture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and you said it was the right choice, without hesitation. Although, I am sitting here thinking, \u201cI bet the money was pretty decent with Zig Ziglar.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Well, it wasn\u2019t bad!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I bet if you would have stayed another ten years, that would have been some serious coin; but without\u2014without hesitation, you said, \u201cNo, it was the right choice.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Absolutely! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNot only that, I guess it's been eight or nine years ago that my husband began to feel kind of the gnaw and pull away from his position. He was a Vice President of the International Operations for Hilton Hotels. He left that very lucrative job to start what would become Going Beyond Ministries, the umbrella of that ministry. So, here we both are\u2014leaving what looks like a position of success to do what God has called us to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This really ties to one of the other resolutions in your book, <em>Resolution for Women<\/em>. It's all about having the right priorities and making sure those priorities are where they are supposed to be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes; absolutely. It's one of my favorites in the book as well. I am going to read it to you so that you can know exactly what it is. I think it's a great one\u2014Number Five: \u201cI will seek to devote the best of myself, my time, and my talents to the primary roles the Lord has entrusted to me in this phase of my life.\u201d There is the resolution. I thought this was an important one, as well, for women because most of the time we are spreading ourselves too thin. We have a perfectionist mentality, where everything has got to be perfect. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBefore we know it, we are exhausted. We can't be the wives that our husbands would prefer for us to be \/ we are not able to give ourselves fully to what God has for us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, I think one of the most important aspects of that resolution is determining what the primary roles are\u2014determining, \u201cWhat is it that God has called you to in this season?\u201d\u2014and then, you can bring yourself fully to those two or three things instead of doing a thousand things for the glory of God, which you cannot do. You can choose one \/ you can choose two for this season and be fully devoted to those.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I was impressed in your book that you modeled what you are actually talking about here. You were in a relationship with an older woman who was a mentor to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And I can't underline that enough \/ underscore that with our listeners. Women today need older women, who are a lap or two ahead of them in the race of life, so you can just interact with them. They can say: \u201cNo; it is okay,\u201d \u201cIt is okay, Honey. That\u2019s exactly what you need to be feeling right now,\u201d \u201cIt is okay that you are struggling with that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe gave you an illustration, though, about boxes that helped you a bunch.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes; yes, it helped me a lot. Her name is Jill Briscoe. We have such admiration for her\u2014so many people do. I was speaking at a conference with her. Anytime I am at a conference with someone or meet up with someone who\u2014you are right\u2014is in a season of life where I have seen them model ministry, and marriage, and motherhood well. I sure do pull them aside and sit with them for a while. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThroughout the conversation, she said many incredible things; but the one thing that stuck with me was\u2014she said: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPriscilla, most women think of balance as if they had, for example, ten boxes that symbolize the ten\u2014let\u2019s say they have ten priorities in their life. They have got ten boxes that symbolize those. \u201cBalance\u201d to us, most of the time, is when each one of them is filled up equally with our time, our talents and our attention. When they are all full, across the board, we think, \u201cThat is balance.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut she said: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat really is a picture of chaos. That is a picture of frustration and irritation because <em>nobody<\/em> can maintain that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe said: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat balance is\u2014is prayerfully seeking the Lord and saying to Him, \u201cWhat are Your primary boxes for me in this season of life?\u201d and then, having the courage to rearrange all your boxes\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014to move those two or three things to the front and let everything else lag behind. Then giving yourself permission to fill up the two or three at the front and leave everything else at a two, or a one, or a three because you can't invest everything into that season. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere will be a time when you need to shift the boxes again and you need to rearrange\u2014and something else will be more fully-invested\u2014but giving ourselves <em>permission<\/em> to realize that balance isn\u2019t everything being equally full. It is devoting ourselves to the <em>primary<\/em> things that God has for us for today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I can hear a woman, right now, going: \u201cYes; but that works for you, Priscilla, because you are kind of wired for 220 volts. You are kind of a high-energy, three-ring-circus woman. I am only a one-ring-circus woman.\u201d Priscilla, do you ever get tired? Do you ever suffer from fatigue?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>I am tired right <em>now<\/em>. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>If I had a dollar for every time Barbara, as we were raising our family\u2014and even now to a lesser degree\u2014but if I had a dollar for every time she said, \u201cI am just so tired.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Oh, you would be rich!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Do you ever get tired?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Oh, my goodness! I feel like a friend of mine says: \u201cI am magnetized to mattresses. I just feel like I need a nap all the time.\u201d [Laughter] So, yes, my day is like every other person\u2019s day that is trying to raise a family. I am just getting up and making lunches, and making breakfast, and trying to finish last-minute homework that we didn\u2019t finish the night before, and trying to get everybody dressed\u2014except there are dirty clothes, and they are not all cleaned, and they don\u2019t have the shirt they need\u2014so I have got to wash clothes really quick, and then dry them real quick, and then throw them on them half-damp.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I am tired\u2014you are making me tired!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes! It's chaos! It's before 7: 00 a.m., and it's chaos! [Laughter] It is <em>complete<\/em> chaos. Yet, somehow, we have to just say: \u201cOkay, here are the two or three things I can do <em>fully<\/em>; and they are not going to be perfect. They are still going to be messy because motherhood, and marriage, and even being a single woman with a career\u2014all that stuff can be really messy. It's not supposed to be perfect. It is supposed to just be covered by God\u2019s grace as we fully are contented in and giving the best of ourselves to the primary season God has.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You know\u2014this movie that has come out, <em>Courageous<\/em>, is really calling men to align their priorities and make family the top of the list.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Do women need to be doing the same thing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>I think we better be doing the same thing. I think that we will find our greatest blessing and our greatest joy, not in finding success <em>outside<\/em> of our families, if we have one\u2014not finding that outside of our families, but finding it in all the seeds that we plant today and invest today in the lives of our children and the lives of our spouses. That we get to see that harvest returned to us 20 to 30 years from now. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have <em>never<\/em> heard a mother\u2014that is now in retirement age\u2014I have <em>never<\/em> heard her say, \u201cI wish I would have spent more time working when my children were little.\u201d One has <em>never<\/em> said that to me. They all say to me: \u201cOh, Priscilla, you better enjoy this time when your kids are young. I wish I could do that one more time.\u201d I can't imagine that right now with all the craziness and chaos; but I am trying to remember that every single day, when there are Cheerios<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> all over the floor and there are accidents that happen\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014I am trying to remember that I better milk this season for all that it is worth because the season will change, and I might not have an opportunity to do this part again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You continue to come back to the theme of contentment. I keep having this verse bounce around in my brain\u20141Timothy, Chapter 6. I would really commend the whole chapter to our listeners, just to brush up on contentment because it talks a lot of about it. Apostle Paul writes\u2014he says [verses 6-8], \u201cNow there is great gain in godliness when accompanied with contentment; for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these, we will be content.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, most Americans are nowhere near living out that passage because they are not looking at life through God\u2019s eyes\u2014living out a wise life \/ making choices according to His design\u2014what the Scriptures call us to. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd that\u2019s really what you are calling women to do in your book, <em>The Resolution for Women<\/em>. You are really calling women back to the Scriptures and calling them to\u2014not just believe them intellectually\u2014but make a commitment \/ a resolve to live them out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well I think it\u2019s interesting because what you\u2019recalling women to in the book is parallel with what Barbara is calling wives to in the new book that she\u2019s just written called <em>Letters to My Daughters<\/em> that we\u2019ve talked about already this week. There is a need for wives, and moms, women in the marketplace to be focused on God\u2019s design for them \/ God\u2019s priorities for them. Both you and Barbara are calling women to that in the books you\u2019ve written. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, we have both of those books in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. Our listeners can go to FamilyLifeToday.com to order copies of either book\u2014<em>The Resolution for Women<\/em> by Priscilla Shirer or <em>Letters to My Daughters: <\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>The Art of Being a Wife<\/em> from Barbara Rainey. Order them from us, online; or call 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY,\u201d if you\u2019d like to order either or both of these books from us by phone. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, today is a big day for some friends of ours who live in Severn, Maryland, and listen to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> on WAVA. Trevor and Rhonda Richards have been married 21 years today. We just wanted to wish them a \u201cHappy Anniversary!\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are congratulating people on celebrating their anniversaries this year. FamilyLife is the \u201cProud Sponsor of Anniversaries.\u201d We are celebrating our 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary as a ministry during 2016; but as we\u2019ve been saying throughout this year, it\u2019s not really our anniversaries that matter\u2014it\u2019s your anniversary that matters. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, that\u2019s why <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> exists. We exist so that more couples will celebrate more anniversaries, year in and year out, with more joy and with more contentment in your marriage relationship. Our mission is to effectively develop godly marriages and families, who change the world, one home at a time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re enabled in that mission by those of you who help support us as donors to the ministry\u2014and especially those of you who are Legacy Partners\u2014thank you for your support as monthly donors to FamilyLife. This month, we are hoping that in each of the states where <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is heard, there might be 20 new families who would step forward and say, \u201cWe can be a part of the monthly support team for this ministry.\u201d If you\u2019d join us as a Legacy Partner, we would be grateful. It\u2019s easy to do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can get more information, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com when you click the button on that says, \u201cDONATE\u201d; or you can call and say: \u201cI\u2019m interested in becoming a Legacy Partner. 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Priscilla Shirer says, \u201cHere is where a woman ought to begin.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>I think that we will find our greatest blessing and our greatest joy, not in finding success <em>outside<\/em> of our families, but finding it in all the seeds that we plant today and invest today in the lives of our children and in the lives of our spouses\u2014that we get to see that harvest returned to us 20 to 30 years from now. I have <em>never<\/em> heard a mother\u2014that is now in retirement age\u2014I have <em>never<\/em> heard her say, \u201cI wish I would have spent more time working.\u201d They <em>all<\/em> say to me: \u201cOh Priscilla, you better enjoy this time when your kids are young. I wish I could do that one more time.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Thursday, February 18<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I am Bob Lepine. Priscilla Shirer joins us today to help women think about how to rightly align their lives. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today. <\/em>Thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition. Whenever we tackle an issue that relates to men\u2014and we do that from time to time\u2014 where you will get in guys\u2019 faces and kind of stir them up about being men; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: I will put my arm around them before I get in their face, but yes. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>: Whenever we do it, we invariably get a few notes \/ a few emails from guys, who are saying: \u201cWhy are you guys always picking on us, as men? Why are you men-bashing? When are you going to turn your attention to the women? 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She has written a book called <em>The Resolution for Women<\/em>. This is about 13 resolutions that you are challenging women to consider.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>: Well, and we should say you wrote this book back when the movie, <em>Courageous<\/em>, was coming out in the theaters. There\u2019s a scene in the movie where men, at the end, stand and make a declaration that they are going to be courageous men \/ they\u2019re going to be the men that God\u2019s called them to be. This book was written to coincide with that movie coming out. Although there\u2019s not a parallel scene where women do the same thing, there was a desire to challenge women concurrent with challenging men. Tell our listeners how all of that came about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Well, the Kendrick brothers and the people that worked with the picture\u2014they just thought that it was an injustice not to also equip women that had gone to that movie\u2014were inspired, not only with the resolutions they prayed that their husbands, and sons, and fathers would be making in their lives\u2014but felt encouraged and inspired themselves to make resolutions that will begin to affect them personally, as a woman, but then also in their position as a wife or as a mother. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s been a treat really to kind of just come alongside of them. 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Bob doesn\u2019t like me doing this; but is there a fundamental or one of the resolutions that you would consider to be\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is like, \u201cWhich one of your kids do you like the best?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes, that\u2019s <em>hard<\/em>; but I can answer this question only because I will tell you the one, for me, that is the absolute most challenging. I am going to read it right out of the book because I want to get it exactly right. This one, I will tell you\u2014it was not supposed to be the first section in the book; and then, as I went through it and I got to this one, I said, \u201cThis has <em>got<\/em> to be number one because it doesn\u2019t matter if you are single or married, if you have children or if you do not, this is one that is just going to resonate with you in your life.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo the very first resolution of the book says this: \u201cI do solemnly resolve to embrace my current season of life and will maximize my time in it. I will resist the urge to hurry through or circumvent any portion of my journey but will live with the spirit of contentment.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, wherever you are and whatever season of life you are in, that\u2019s going to strike a chord with you because you can either choose to fully engage\u2014you know, how you can be there, but not really be there? We go through so much of the seasons of our life really not fully engaged in where we are. We are looking forward to the next thing before we fully completed the thing we are <em>in<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's interesting how you don\u2019t realize the blessings of where you are most of the time until you are not there anymore, and then, that season of life has passed you by. If I am a mother of small children\u2014which I am\u2014I need to fully engage. It's difficult too\u2014\u201cThe years\u201d\u2014they say\u2014\u201care short, but them days sure are long!\u201d So I have got to choose, \u201cAm I going to fully engage in this season of life and <em>choose<\/em> contentment right where I am?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo single woman\u2014you have got to choose contentment right where you are. Married, and don\u2019t have children yet? Maybe it's even a struggle for you\u2014you want children, but the doctor is saying, \u201cIt's going to be a struggle.\u201d Well, you have got to <em>choose <\/em>contentment even in that difficulty. It\u2019s a choice and a resolution that we have to make. It\u2019s a <em>skill<\/em> that Paul said he had to learn, \u201cI had to <em>learn<\/em> the secret of contentment.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And to that point, Priscilla, it\u2019s not just a matter of making an act of the will, \u201cI\u2019m going to be content.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You\u2019re talking about <em>learning<\/em> something from the Scriptures and from the Spirit of God as you face your circumstances. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat must a single woman, married woman, a mom\u2014maybe who\u2019s surrounded by some rug-rats, just pulling and tugging away\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>I love that\u2014rug-rats.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>They just take a lot of life from you. You can look around and compare your life with other people. How does a woman maintain commitment? What does she need to learn?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Well, it\u2019s very interesting because you just hit the nail on one of the heads that we really need to be concentrating on, and that is the issue of comparison. Most of the time, our lack of contentment is due to the fact that we are comparing our current circumstances with what we see other people facing. We don\u2019t have blinders on like a horse that has been\u2014like those horse-drawn carriages, where you will see the horse has blinders on each side of his eyes\u2014that\u2019s because the driver wants to know that they are not distracted by what\u2019s happening on the right and the left because that can cause them to get off of their course. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have to realize and understand and trust the fact that God does have a course for us and that He\u2019s not shocked by the stuff that has shocked us in our life. He\u2019s not shocked. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe had this whole thing planned\u2014Jeremiah 1: 5 says, \u201cBefore we even came out of the womb, He was on it with our lives.\u201d So we have to decide: \u201cWill we put the blinders on?\u201d\u2014not compare what our circumstance looks like in comparison to other people\u2019s circumstance\u2014just believe that we are on the track that God has for us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Was there ever a time in your life when you had to narrow the blinders?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Absolutely! In fact, it\u2019s not going to be something we just wake up one day and we\u2019re done. It\u2019s going to be a journey. So this issue of contentment is something that in every season of life I am sure will be a struggle for me. It will be something I\u2019ll have to <em>constantly<\/em> remind myself daily, \u201cToday, I need to be content with what is happening today, this week, this month,\u201d and not try to hurry up through this week because it\u2019s such a busy week. Not hurry up through it because, in our attempts to miss the parts that we don\u2019t like, we end up missing the parts that we do like. We don\u2019t even get the good stuff when we try to sleep through the bad stuff\u2014you know, \u201cHurry up because this is a difficulty that we want to miss.\u201d But you\u2019ve also just missed the birthdays of your kids, you\u2019ve also missed this year of marriage with your husband, you\u2019ve missed this birthday. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI start the book talking about my 36<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was the only 36<sup>th<\/sup> year that I would ever have. If I rush through it because, \u201cI can\u2019t wait until my kids are teenagers,\u201d well then, I\u2019ve also missed my 36<sup>th<\/sup> year. It\u2019s the only one I\u2019ll ever get to experience in my whole life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You talked about this being foundational. I guess I have two questions. One is: \u201cDo you think contentment is more of an issue for women than it is for men?\u201d Then secondly, \u201cHow have you had to wrestle with it?\u201d You say you are going to have to wrestle with it at every age of life; but as you were working on this book, you were freshly aware that this is an issue for you. How did that manifest itself?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Innately, I don\u2019t think that it is more of an issue for women than for men. I think human beings, in general, have a tendency to compare themselves to what they see happening around them. We can trace this all the way back to the Book of Haggai. They are rebuilding the temple. Someone stands back and says, \u201cDoes anybody think that what we are doing now is <em>anything<\/em> to be compared with what would have been Solomon\u2019s temple?\u201d So they stop working on their current project because they are so busy reminding themselves of the <em>beautiful<\/em> work that <em>used to be.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>The \u201cgood old days.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>The \u201cgood old days.\u201d It keeps them from building. Then, God finally says to them: \u201cI am going to put My Spirit upon you. Would you just work? And I promise you, that the latter glory will be greater than the former glory.\u201d So, I think it's a human issue. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn the other hand, we live in a culture that, I think, perpetuates it in a different and unique way in women. I think men have it, too, with success and other areas of life\u2014 drive and ambition in terms of their careers. I just think that it is perpetuated in a different way with women\u2014some in the same ways because success is not described as \u201cstaying at home with your kids,\u201d in this day and age, in some circles. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo to make that choice\u2014there is a sacrifice to make that choice. We still have to choose, again, to put the blinders on whatever our choice is going to be \/ whatever we are choosing to do for our lives, whether\u2014again, that\u2019s just an illustration\u2014but whether we stay home with our children or not. If we live in a way that is honoring to God, whatever that means for you and your family, you have to put blinders on so that, when the culture is saying something contrary to your decision, you are still choosing to go with God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u00a0So how has that been fresh for you as you were working on this book?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Well, in a number of ways. In our ministry, there are many opportunities that we have to do things that are <em>extraordinary<\/em> opportunities\u2014to stand in front of groups of people in nations that are far off and to teach God\u2019s Word to them, there are opportunities to be a part of writing materials and books, and participating in conferences with people whom we all admire. Most of the time \/ 80 percent of the time, I have to say, \u201cNo.\u201d The reason is because, while in some people\u2019s view that would cause me to be propelled to whatever kind of status would be considered successful, I know that there is a season of life that I am in right now that I cannot do both of those things and be successful at the main thing, which is making sure that I am a mom to my boys and that I am a wife to the husband God has given me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's just being content with this season; and again, seasons change. There is an investment you make in one season, choosing to be content where you are; and again, I am so not perfect at that. I have got so much work to do in that area; and yet, it\u2019s just a journey that the Lord bolsters us through.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I think contentment comes as a result of us placing faith in the God who does order our steps and does call us to make heroic choices. This book you have put together is a call for heroism in women. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s true.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You faced a decision when you were working for Zig Ziglar, speaking nationwide. There really came a crossroads, as I understand it, for you, where you had to decide, \u201cWhich fork in the road am I going to take?\u201d\u2014a key step of faith for you that demanded courage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes. It was right out of college that the Zig Ziglar Corporation<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> called and asked if I would come and lead a Bible study. They have a Monday morning Bible study every week. I came in, fresh out of college, did a Bible study and got a call that afternoon asking if I would be one of their\u2014they have a handful \/ maybe five speakers that will go out and do motivational sessions or teach Zig\u2019s curriculum. For about eight to ten years, I did that. I was kind of just one of Zig\u2019s few speakers that would go out from his company, and I enjoyed it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember standing in front of AT&amp;T<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or Coca-Cola<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or some of these big companies. I am talking to them about Zig\u2019s curriculum, positive mental attitude, or customer service skills. All the while, I am thinking to myself, \u201cBut are you saved?\u201d\u2014that\u2019s what I wanted to ask them. I wanted to know, \u201cI hope your attitude\u2019s right,\u201d but I also want to know, \u201cAre you going to heaven?\u201d That\u2019s not what the people at Coca-Cola hired me to come in and do. [Laughter] So I had to be very careful, obviously; but I remember the Lord using that time to <em>stir<\/em> in me a desire for ministry. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere was a hunger \/ there was a passion to want to open the Bible with people. It just didn\u2019t make sense because I was fairly successful doing that\u2014it paid the bills \/ there was a financial reward for doing that. So yes, it took courage. I will be honest with you and say that I hesitated and procrastinated in making that decision for quite some time. So it wasn\u2019t until probably three or four years after I first felt that gnawing of God to completely finish with that and move fully into ministry that I actually said, \u201cOkay,\u201d and did it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u00a0Yes. And Priscilla, you wonder what kind of hangs in the balance as someone contemplates a decision like that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I mean, because God\u2019s placing upon your heart and upon your life, a call; and at that moment, you have to be obedient to fulfill that call. Now, looking back over it\u2014how many years since you made that decision?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Oh gosh; it's been at least a decade, if not more.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Was it the right choice?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>It was <em>so <\/em>the right choice!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And that is the will of God\u2014it's \u201cgood, acceptable, and perfect\u201d [from Romans 12: 2]. It comes about as a result of placing faith in God and you are stepping out, many times, not seeing what the future has \/ not knowing what the result\u2019s going to be\u2014but you are trusting God. That\u2019s the call of Scripture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and you said it was the right choice, without hesitation. Although, I am sitting here thinking, \u201cI bet the money was pretty decent with Zig Ziglar.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Well, it wasn\u2019t bad!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I bet if you would have stayed another ten years, that would have been some serious coin; but without\u2014without hesitation, you said, \u201cNo, it was the right choice.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Absolutely! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNot only that, I guess it's been eight or nine years ago that my husband began to feel kind of the gnaw and pull away from his position. He was a Vice President of the International Operations for Hilton Hotels. He left that very lucrative job to start what would become Going Beyond Ministries, the umbrella of that ministry. So, here we both are\u2014leaving what looks like a position of success to do what God has called us to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This really ties to one of the other resolutions in your book, <em>Resolution for Women<\/em>. It's all about having the right priorities and making sure those priorities are where they are supposed to be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes; absolutely. It's one of my favorites in the book as well. I am going to read it to you so that you can know exactly what it is. I think it's a great one\u2014Number Five: \u201cI will seek to devote the best of myself, my time, and my talents to the primary roles the Lord has entrusted to me in this phase of my life.\u201d There is the resolution. I thought this was an important one, as well, for women because most of the time we are spreading ourselves too thin. We have a perfectionist mentality, where everything has got to be perfect. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBefore we know it, we are exhausted. We can't be the wives that our husbands would prefer for us to be \/ we are not able to give ourselves fully to what God has for us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, I think one of the most important aspects of that resolution is determining what the primary roles are\u2014determining, \u201cWhat is it that God has called you to in this season?\u201d\u2014and then, you can bring yourself fully to those two or three things instead of doing a thousand things for the glory of God, which you cannot do. You can choose one \/ you can choose two for this season and be fully devoted to those.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I was impressed in your book that you modeled what you are actually talking about here. You were in a relationship with an older woman who was a mentor to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And I can't underline that enough \/ underscore that with our listeners. Women today need older women, who are a lap or two ahead of them in the race of life, so you can just interact with them. They can say: \u201cNo; it is okay,\u201d \u201cIt is okay, Honey. That\u2019s exactly what you need to be feeling right now,\u201d \u201cIt is okay that you are struggling with that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe gave you an illustration, though, about boxes that helped you a bunch.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes; yes, it helped me a lot. Her name is Jill Briscoe. We have such admiration for her\u2014so many people do. I was speaking at a conference with her. Anytime I am at a conference with someone or meet up with someone who\u2014you are right\u2014is in a season of life where I have seen them model ministry, and marriage, and motherhood well. I sure do pull them aside and sit with them for a while. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThroughout the conversation, she said many incredible things; but the one thing that stuck with me was\u2014she said: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPriscilla, most women think of balance as if they had, for example, ten boxes that symbolize the ten\u2014let\u2019s say they have ten priorities in their life. They have got ten boxes that symbolize those. \u201cBalance\u201d to us, most of the time, is when each one of them is filled up equally with our time, our talents and our attention. When they are all full, across the board, we think, \u201cThat is balance.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut she said: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat really is a picture of chaos. That is a picture of frustration and irritation because <em>nobody<\/em> can maintain that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe said: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat balance is\u2014is prayerfully seeking the Lord and saying to Him, \u201cWhat are Your primary boxes for me in this season of life?\u201d and then, having the courage to rearrange all your boxes\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014to move those two or three things to the front and let everything else lag behind. Then giving yourself permission to fill up the two or three at the front and leave everything else at a two, or a one, or a three because you can't invest everything into that season. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere will be a time when you need to shift the boxes again and you need to rearrange\u2014and something else will be more fully-invested\u2014but giving ourselves <em>permission<\/em> to realize that balance isn\u2019t everything being equally full. It is devoting ourselves to the <em>primary<\/em> things that God has for us for today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I can hear a woman, right now, going: \u201cYes; but that works for you, Priscilla, because you are kind of wired for 220 volts. You are kind of a high-energy, three-ring-circus woman. I am only a one-ring-circus woman.\u201d Priscilla, do you ever get tired? Do you ever suffer from fatigue?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>I am tired right <em>now<\/em>. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>If I had a dollar for every time Barbara, as we were raising our family\u2014and even now to a lesser degree\u2014but if I had a dollar for every time she said, \u201cI am just so tired.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Oh, you would be rich!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Do you ever get tired?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Oh, my goodness! I feel like a friend of mine says: \u201cI am magnetized to mattresses. I just feel like I need a nap all the time.\u201d [Laughter] So, yes, my day is like every other person\u2019s day that is trying to raise a family. I am just getting up and making lunches, and making breakfast, and trying to finish last-minute homework that we didn\u2019t finish the night before, and trying to get everybody dressed\u2014except there are dirty clothes, and they are not all cleaned, and they don\u2019t have the shirt they need\u2014so I have got to wash clothes really quick, and then dry them real quick, and then throw them on them half-damp.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I am tired\u2014you are making me tired!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes! It's chaos! It's before 7: 00 a.m., and it's chaos! [Laughter] It is <em>complete<\/em> chaos. Yet, somehow, we have to just say: \u201cOkay, here are the two or three things I can do <em>fully<\/em>; and they are not going to be perfect. They are still going to be messy because motherhood, and marriage, and even being a single woman with a career\u2014all that stuff can be really messy. It's not supposed to be perfect. It is supposed to just be covered by God\u2019s grace as we fully are contented in and giving the best of ourselves to the primary season God has.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You know\u2014this movie that has come out, <em>Courageous<\/em>, is really calling men to align their priorities and make family the top of the list.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Do women need to be doing the same thing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Priscilla: <\/strong>I think we better be doing the same thing. I think that we will find our greatest blessing and our greatest joy, not in finding success <em>outside<\/em> of our families, if we have one\u2014not finding that outside of our families, but finding it in all the seeds that we plant today and invest today in the lives of our children and the lives of our spouses. That we get to see that harvest returned to us 20 to 30 years from now. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have <em>never<\/em> heard a mother\u2014that is now in retirement age\u2014I have <em>never<\/em> heard her say, \u201cI wish I would have spent more time working when my children were little.\u201d One has <em>never<\/em> said that to me. They all say to me: \u201cOh, Priscilla, you better enjoy this time when your kids are young. I wish I could do that one more time.\u201d I can't imagine that right now with all the craziness and chaos; but I am trying to remember that every single day, when there are Cheerios<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> all over the floor and there are accidents that happen\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014I am trying to remember that I better milk this season for all that it is worth because the season will change, and I might not have an opportunity to do this part again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You continue to come back to the theme of contentment. I keep having this verse bounce around in my brain\u20141Timothy, Chapter 6. I would really commend the whole chapter to our listeners, just to brush up on contentment because it talks a lot of about it. Apostle Paul writes\u2014he says [verses 6-8], \u201cNow there is great gain in godliness when accompanied with contentment; for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these, we will be content.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, most Americans are nowhere near living out that passage because they are not looking at life through God\u2019s eyes\u2014living out a wise life \/ making choices according to His design\u2014what the Scriptures call us to. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd that\u2019s really what you are calling women to do in your book, <em>The Resolution for Women<\/em>. You are really calling women back to the Scriptures and calling them to\u2014not just believe them intellectually\u2014but make a commitment \/ a resolve to live them out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well I think it\u2019s interesting because what you\u2019recalling women to in the book is parallel with what Barbara is calling wives to in the new book that she\u2019s just written called <em>Letters to My Daughters<\/em> that we\u2019ve talked about already this week. There is a need for wives, and moms, women in the marketplace to be focused on God\u2019s design for them \/ God\u2019s priorities for them. Both you and Barbara are calling women to that in the books you\u2019ve written. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, we have both of those books in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. Our listeners can go to FamilyLifeToday.com to order copies of either book\u2014<em>The Resolution for Women<\/em> by Priscilla Shirer or <em>Letters to My Daughters: <\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>The Art of Being a Wife<\/em> from Barbara Rainey. Order them from us, online; or call 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY,\u201d if you\u2019d like to order either or both of these books from us by phone. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, today is a big day for some friends of ours who live in Severn, Maryland, and listen to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> on WAVA. Trevor and Rhonda Richards have been married 21 years today. We just wanted to wish them a \u201cHappy Anniversary!\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are congratulating people on celebrating their anniversaries this year. FamilyLife is the \u201cProud Sponsor of Anniversaries.\u201d We are celebrating our 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary as a ministry during 2016; but as we\u2019ve been saying throughout this year, it\u2019s not really our anniversaries that matter\u2014it\u2019s your anniversary that matters. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, that\u2019s why <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> exists. We exist so that more couples will celebrate more anniversaries, year in and year out, with more joy and with more contentment in your marriage relationship. Our mission is to effectively develop godly marriages and families, who change the world, one home at a time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re enabled in that mission by those of you who help support us as donors to the ministry\u2014and especially those of you who are Legacy Partners\u2014thank you for your support as monthly donors to FamilyLife. This month, we are hoping that in each of the states where <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is heard, there might be 20 new families who would step forward and say, \u201cWe can be a part of the monthly support team for this ministry.\u201d If you\u2019d join us as a Legacy Partner, we would be grateful. It\u2019s easy to do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can get more information, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com when you click the button on that says, \u201cDONATE\u201d; or you can call and say: \u201cI\u2019m interested in becoming a Legacy Partner. Tell me more about it.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24: 00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur toll-free number is 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201dF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY,\u201d if you\u2019d like to call to become a Legacy Partner.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we want to talk about how a woman can calibrate her life in such a way that she makes sure that what\u2019s really important does not get sidelined. Priscilla Shirer is going to be back with us tomorrow. Hope you can join us as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I am Bob Lepine. 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