and i think that the idea of having it all you know we're called to serve christ and you know the
scripture the old the new testament talks about what did jesus say when he called his disciples
pick up your cross and follow me now that's not always the most popular message pick up
your cross right motherhood has a few sacrifices absolutely a lot right and uh so does marriage yep
and sometimes we don't talk about that and i think it's worth a minute to talk about
what is having it all yeah do you want to stay married
i do i do yeah absolutely i'm the grandma i could talk i've been married 47 years old tell us at all
do you want to stay married do you want to raise kids do you want to there are times
when i couldn't have it all yep i had to make the choice i wanted to be an attorney i wanted to be i
was saying the other day a supreme court justice i i wanted to do all could i have done those things
well i think i'm pretty smart i could okay i could have done a lot i wanted to have a business i
wanted to do my husband had other things he wanted to do is it balancing or i think the word balance
is a complicated word when you are a highly motivated person you know i believe that work
is a gift i believe that god has created us with passion and gifting every single human is born
with high capacity to do what they're called and created to do so when you are all in whether you
are a teacher or if you're a postman if you are a real estate sales person you're a developer a
contractor whatever you're doing decorating houses you're all in you're working and work is hard
and you're out there providing for your family you're all in well it's hard to use the word
balance because as a family everybody's working working helping working and i guess what i'm
trying to get to is it's hard for two people to be totally having it all for just their agenda and
still raising children and everybody having it all all the time what i'm trying to get to is there's
a time when you pick up your cross and you follow christ you say well what do you mean robin there's
times that you say you know what i may not even always agree with the dream that my husband has
i may not always support what he wants to do in the logic but because i adore him because i adore
my children i'm going to get in here and i'm going to be passionate about the family so what's the
long-term dream i think that's the most important thing about motherhood is what's my big idea
we will sacrifice in moments of our journey when raising our families um even being a partner
to our husband we sacrifice our own comfort it's not that we sacrifice our personhood we
sacrifice comfort we sacrifice even our some of our priorities for the sake of the greater mission
and um what sacrifice looked like to me was i had i had the choice and i did work you know
um i was by vocational i worked uh a job and also i i worked at home and i was a stay-at-home mom
all in one you know i worked at the church was by vocational and it still raised my family and
i made a decision not because someone asked me to it was just because i felt that that my children
were slipping through my fingertips if i could say it in that way moments were being lost and i
was getting frustrated because i wasn't there for the moments if that makes sense so i stayed home
i made a decision i made a decision i sacrificed not taking my kids to public school and i
homeschooled them at home i sacrificed part of my dreams i i didn't i didn't completely extinguish
them but i kind of set the timeline aside in order for other things to have a greater priority
i never felt like the sacrifice was needed to be acknowledged but i knew
god saw the whole thing god saw my choices god saw the greater good
who knows what i'm gonna get to do when i was uh let's see when i was in my 60s i got my doctorate
so you know there's still time to do lots of things and the idea of shame
and guilt is something that we allow when there were times where i was disappointed
that i didn't get to do something that i thought i should be doing i would ask the lord to help me
not be angry not be disappointed but realize that if i would put him first
he would bring the opportunity he would bring the pathway and the truth is he has
yes he does and the big thing is we never give up anything to the lord that he doesn't bring
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