May. 31, 2008 - Titus 2 Schedule

We officially finished school a few weeks ago, but that doesn't mean we have slowed down.  The girls both have several projects for 4-H to complete, music practice, artwork, and photography.  Breezy is doing a weekly lesson on The Drawing Blog and Emily is now doing a weekly craft project on The Backyard, plus they try to keep up on their own personal blogs.  Along with all of those activities we are trying to keep up with hospitality and have some summer fun. 

We keep a schedule going while we are "officially" doing school, but I realized quickly after school was finished, that we needed to have a schedule for summer, too.  After one particular frustrating and busy morning, I asked the Lord to help us with our schedule.  He was more than gracious to show me what I needed to do and to turn a frustrating morning into a blessing.  This is what He showed me.

I gathered up our big white board, a marker and eraser, had the girls get us all our bibles.  We turned to Titus 2:3-5 and slowly read through the passage.  I then took our big white board and on the right side of the board I wrote each thing that we are to teach the young women.  In each place where it said husband, I wrote Daddy.  (That way they can practice this type of servanthood on their Daddy and be much better prepared to live this out with their future husbands.) The following are the commands in Titus 2 and the second list is how I changed it specifically for us.

To love their husbands          
to love their children              
to be sensible                          
to be pure                                
workers at home                     
kind                                            
being subject to their own husbands            
so that the word of God will not be dishonored.   



Love Daddy
Love your sister, love Maggie, and other's littles
Be sensible (thinking, planning and working your plan)
Be pure (what you watch, think, do, hear, say, read, our need of wisdom and discernment)
workers at home (practice their homemaking, develop home business)
Kind to everyone (show compassion)
Subject to your daddy
Not to dishonor God

I then made a column for each of the girls and myself and filled them in with all the different things that we need or want to do in a day.  I had Breezy pick out the one thing that she felt was the most important to get done after her quiet time in the morning.  She picked quality time at the piano.  She has begun playing at church every other week and really wanted to make sure that she has the songs worked out.  So we started at the bottom of the Titus 2 list and I asked how she could not dishonor God by practicing and playing the piano.   We then  went to the top of the list  and I asked how could she show love to her daddy by playing the piano.  As we continued through the list  I asked how she could accomplish each command with her piano playing.  I then had Emily pick out what she felt was the most important on her list and we did the same thing. 

It was amazing to go through the list in Titus 2 and see how each command has an affect on the others.  If we aren't  kind then we aren't being sensible, if we aren't being subject to daddy then we aren't showing love to him, etc.  If we don't do any of this things then we are dishonoring the word of God. 

We didn't go through each thing we had on our to do list, but we could now look at what we wanted to get done and see it through biblical lenses.  It enabled us to choose what was most important and to schedule those items in a way that brings honor to God. 

It has helped us set our boundaries and to be more productive. Do we follow our schedule exactly?  Not quite, but it is there and helps us get back on track and to remember what we need to do and why we are doing it. I praise the Lord for His mercy and kindness in teaching me this lesson.  Emily has affectionately called it our T2 schedule.  Remember T2.

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May. 31, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Shutterbug

Oh Robin,
Thank you for sharing that. I need to stay on task and get more done in a day then I have been doing. This may just do the trick for me as well. Thank you so much for sharing this. :) We are looking forward to seeing you all Sunday. :) Have a wonderful day!
Love,
Marie :)

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Jun. 2, 2008 - From Sarah Mae

Posted by Anonymous

Robin, what a great post! I love this idea, and I need to sit down and do it myself! Thank you!

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Jun. 8, 2008 - Teaching With The Bible

Posted by basketflat

I love this. I think I will refer back to this in teaching my girls. So often I know I don't want them to do this, I want them to do this, but it is refreshing to go to the Bible for the why's. What does God want from us? I like how you personalized those verses for your girls. Even though my girls are little, I think I will try this with them.

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