I’m reading Becoming a Titus 2 Woman by Martha Peace, and the time that I’m reading it is no accident. My good friend Karen recomended this book to me a few months ago now, but I picked it up a few nights ago and I think now is the time to be reading it. I’m so glad that I did, although when you pray and ask the Holy Spirit to lead you, well, expect God to answer you.

The last two months I have been thinking about my priorities and talking to God about what he wants me to do and where does he want me? Where best can I use the gifts that he has given me? I seem to be so involved in many things, and they are all good works, but I am discovering that God can sometimes only call us for a season, sometimes short, sometimes long, but sometimes God asks us to do something for a short time, and if you are like me, you can miss the signs that God is calling you somewhere else, or…bringing you back from a few things, with nothing else appearing on the horizon. Well, God is doing this with me and apart from feeling that God is pulling me back from a few things, they mostly have been vague, uneasy feelings that I am not in God’s will for me at this moment. This might not make sense to you my dear reader but it all makes perfect sense to me !

So….back to the book.

Chapter One: Study Questions.

First Question: Write a paragraph describing what you believe to be the role of the Christian woman . Easy enough to answer for me. I wrote…To love and serve God, to help her husband, to care for her family first.

Second question: Make a list of the priorities in your life. In other words, what activities and commitments do you have? What takes up your time? I wrote…1).Housework (including all that I do at home, cooking, cleaning, caring) 2) Being a church deacon. 3) Toddler group. 4) MOPS. 5) Voluntary work at a local day care home. 6) Helping to organise a ladies group that meets every few weeks or so. 7) Being a church Rep for the persecuted church (not very successfully I might add).

Well I wrote that down and had a long long look at my list. And then the final question.

Look up the following verses and write down what God’s Word teaches us about priorities. Well, this part is a wee bit too long for me to write down here, but going through each verse was enough to make me finally sit up and take notice. God finally got my attention. I made some important decisions the next few days.

So…I shall not be standing for re-election to the Diaconate next March. I will be finishing doing my voluntary work at the Day Centre on December the 12th. As I wrote a letter to my pastor explaining my reasons for standing down as a deacon, I started to feel immense peace about it all, and going into the day care home and telling my dear old ladies that I would not be coming in after the 12th was sad, but they understood..and I went home, feeling free of all things!

I know that God is pulling me back to home more. I know that these other things didn’t cut in too much on my time at home, but one meeting once a month was one meeting to much for my dear husband. He had no problem with me being a deacon and said so, but I *knew* somehow he did. God-given intuition. I know that God has enabled me to make these decisions and this is why I have so much peace about it.