You feel like your heart is breaking when you drop your children off at daycare or at school knowing that they will be there all day. Then when you get home, it’s homework time (if they are in school), then dinner time, and bedtime. Then, you do it all over again the next day and the next…
You desire to have meaningful connections and conversations with your children, but when? Between before care, the regular school day, after care, and any activities, you barely get to see your children and when you do things feel rushed because of everything that has to happen during the day.
You worry that you are missing your children growing up and that the teacher, babysitter, or childcare worker is raising your kids. Those people were the ones who were seeing your children’s major milestones - first steps, first tooth coming out, first words, etc.
Sometimes you feel guilty for the time that you spend at work, but it’s how you finance your lifestyle and you’ve worked hard for your career, but something is missing. You feel like you are going through the motions and you’re questioning whether or not you matter to your job or you wonder if the work you do makes a difference. You wonder if it is even worth it. You feel like you are being called to more. More purpose, more joy, more family time, more impact.
You wish you could quit your job, work from home doing meaningful work that you love that gives you the freedom and flexibility to spend time with your children and choose how you spend your days and make at least what you were making in your corporate career.
Can you relate?
Guess what, there is a way out.
Can I tell you a secret?
You already have the key to your freedom.
How many of you know that you have an idea that God has placed in your heart, but you have no idea how to make it work? That idea is there for a reason. The idea is there not only for the Lord, to do great works through you and also to make a positive change in this world. It's also there for your exit strategy. That little whisper, that little nudge that God is giving you is Him saying, “I have another plan for you.” Take advantage of this plan. Take the idea that the Lord placed in your heart. And from there, you can create your exit strategy.