RoutineTalk: Some Concluding Remarks
2006 at 9:01 am | by Carolyn MahaneyFiled under Motherhood Young Children
As we draw this series to a close, we want to leave you with a few thoughts:
-A schedule is meant to serve, not rule. When it doesn’t serve, dismiss it. Lay it aside and pick it back up later.
-A schedule must be exercised in dependence upon God. It can greatly enhance our mothering, but it can never eliminate our need for God’s help.
-A schedule should be implemented humbly. We must avoid being self-righteous and judgmental in our communication about mothering practices. We must also avoid sinfully judging other women that they are being self-righteous and judgmental. In many cases they may simply be trying to help.
-A schedule is optional. You can certainly glorify God and be an effective mother without a schedule.
-A schedule is not the most important thing about us. Remember D.A. Carson’s admonition:
“So many Christians today identify themselves with some ‘single issue’ (a concept drawn from politics) other than the cross, other than the gospel. It is not that they deny the gospel. If pressed, they will emphatically endorse it. But their point of self-identification, the focus of their minds and hearts, what occupies their interest and energy is something else” (The Cross and Christian Ministry, p. 63).”
The gospel—and not a schedule—should always be what we’re most passionate about. And this is not a suggestion.
