Can Women Have It All? A Grace-Filled Approach to ProductivitySample

What is your legacy?

Our time on earth is finite; therefore we must carefully choose how we’ll spend our limited time, energy, and attention. Rather than seeking to do it all, we should identify what matters most to us. As author Jordan Raynor writes, “Jesus understood his purpose, and that allowed him to take the long list of things he could do and pare it down to the things he knew he should do to finish the work the Father gave him to do (see John 17:4).” As we seek to live in the Lord’s time, rather than the world’s, a helpful exercise is to step back and think about the type of woman you want to become. I encourage you to take out a sheet of paper and journal through some of these questions:

• What do you want your legacy to be?

• What type of woman do you want to be at eighty?

• What are some areas of your life you need to surrender to the Lord?

• Who in your life can you actively be loving, serving, and sharing the gospel with?

• How can you love and serve your family? Your neighbors? Your local church community?

Allow yourself to think and pray through those questions. And then work backward from there. What do you need to change today to help you become that woman?