Sometimes work necessarily takes over most every other activity in my life. Such has been the case over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n
I led a team pulling together a large, complex price proposal for one of my company’s main products. The effort was extremely grueling: administrative leg-work, meetings, a huge punch-list of issues, language and cultural barriers, and not enough time. That effort has wound down now, although I still have monitoring and support functions this week.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, I proudly say I maintained some home life during this time. In fact, on Friday I kept a promise to my wife to keep dinner plans we had with friends. Keeping that promise was not at all easy. Before dinner, I resolved a very difficult and highly stressful issue. Then I got my wife and went to our friends’ home, and later I dropped the wife off at our place and I returned to the office. I worked from 10:00 pm and made it to bed by 2:00 am.<\/p>\n
The next morning, my wife and I went to a Baptist church, where we attended a marriage conference. It was led by a husband and wife speaking team (both PhDs), giving advice on how to strengthen a marriage. As advertised, the advice was heavily inflected with Christian teaching and biblical passages. I’ll tell you about my conference experiences in a separate post.<\/p>\n
I feel great today about having been able to juggle work, family, and marriage. My wife is very understanding and would have been cool if I couldn’t make the dinner or the conference–or both. But I like being married to my wife and I want to honor commitments to her. She’s more important to me than my job. My kids are more important, too. That’s how I feel, and my behavior needs to reflect it. So it was important to me to do both the dinner and the conference.<\/p>\n
So, stay tuned for that post on the conference. For fun, I wonder if y’all can guess which biblical verses one is most likely to hear at a Christian marriage conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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