So here we are in the practical part of the book…sort of.
The author has some good things to say about sitting down and having a meal together. He talks about how setting the table in his house is a family job and how everything on the table isn’t matched it all represents different places they have been. They always pray as a family for the family, for guests they have with them. They also often have communion. It is a time for the family to relax and keep the Hebrew Day. After dinner is downtime, he offers up plenty of suggestions of things to do.
Then he goes into a chapter about small groups. He talks about how they originally had a small group of all church members far away from their home. How they started to become great friends with the neighbors and were sad to go to small group away from them. They eventually started a small group with their neighbors instead. Frazee talked about all how the church was a community, and that is what was important.
Going into the next chapter was on homework for your kids. Basically he said you can offer incentives to try to get your kids to get their homework done during school or on Saturdays so that the evenings were free. Limit the amount of sports they can play so that you aren’t overscheduled. Some of the extreme thoughts that the author had were to not enroll your children in organized sports until middle school or high school. As far as extreme for the homework thing, that was to just homeschool your children.
Then he went into the idea of work. Some of the things he mentioned to do were to change shifts if you work second or third shift, or if you can’t do that to shift the time you do everything in, so it is still 12 hours on, 12 hours off. Look at cutting down your lifestyle to fit under one income or atleast look for flextime jobs.
Overall I think he had some decent ideas, but the book as a whole really needed to have more application. I was able to apply some things of this book, and I hope I can learn to apply more of them as I start a family, but for me as a single, not married, college student, a lot of this book just didn’t apply. However, I still would recommend this book to read if you are looking to try to make room for life.
