How do you determine what’s important for your family?
Voices are constantly screaming for our attention and trying to tell us what family ought to look like. The right house, the right car, the right number of kids, smart kids who perform well in sports and academics, etc. Sometimes, it can feel impossible to measure up and many families end up finding themselves with the children raised and gone, only to have missed what was truly important. they may find themselves asking the question, "what was I chasing after in the first place?"
As parents, one of the most critical things we can to is to discern what is important for our family. And if we're not actively making those decision and choosing to live into them, we'll find that the world is ready to jump in there and make them for us. It's not enough for us to make assumptions when it comes to deciding what's important for our families, it takes proactive thinking and living to shape what actually becomes important for our families.
This week, we;re diving into some of the things that we've found to be most important for our family, how those decisions came about, and what we're doing to try and live into what's important on a daily basis.
We encourage you as a parents to sit down individually and think through some of these things, and then come together to discuss them and see what you find to be important for your family. Are you both on the same page? Is what you thin to be important acually being lived out on a daily basis, or is it stuck in the land theoretical?
We have a little resource for your family that may help aid you in the process of figuring out what's important for your family. It's called "A Family Rule of Life." Check it out below: