A Challenge for Churches, Friends, and Women in the Workplace

Working Women’s Long List of Priorities

Can you see why I say that these women are starved for fellowship? Everyone lives busy lives these days, but a woman who is juggling both her personal life and a full-time or demanding job, has a unique sort of busyness. When she is home, especially if she has a husband and/or children, she wants to be home with them. She has spent enough time away from them already. So when the church has the annual women’s conference, she takes little Josie to the T-ball game instead. When other women are in the fall Bible Study, she is in back-to-back work meetings. And when her friends are in their Thursday night church small groups, she is at home with her husband or out with her boyfriend, trying to catch up after her four-day business trip. She would like to be at the women’s conference or the Bible Study or the small group – in fact, she’s longing for that sort of thing – but these are the choices she has to make in order to prioritize what matters most.

The problem is, she is rarely going to prioritize herself.