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In this week's connecting clip of the week, Paul and Shelby discussed the importance of prioritizing

your family over your ministry. This short excerpt is from a larger conversation between Paul Tripp and Shelby discuss the importance of prioritizing your family over your ministry.

This short excerpt is from a larger conversation between Paul Tripp and Shelby Abbott on the Connecting podcast.

To listen to the full episode, check out the Paul Tripp podcast episode 262.

Now here's Paul and Shelby.

I want to say this.

We're not encouraging ministry wives to be ministry widows at all.

No.

Because that's wrong.

And we always had this commitment to honor calling to family, even in the midst of this.

For example, when I was in Scranton, I said, look, I'm not going to fill my,

I told the congregation this, my evening with ministry appointments,

because I have young children, and I want to be there for those times.

So I will meet you very early in the morning.

I will meet you after 8 o'clock when they're in bed, but not during this period of time.

So we were making those choices.

That's good.

But there are moments when you go through a season when you really have to work hard together to make it work.

But I think Llewalla was, and you disagree please say, I think she was very aware of that commitment in me.

And there's no way that I would have done that for 10 years.

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