Emphasis Preaching Journal

Getting up at 4:30 a.m. was seldom easy for Karen, and most of her friends thought she was crazy for doing it. But in her mind, it was one of the few sane things about her life. She was "married, with children," and that pretty much told the story. Taking care of family matters was time-consuming in itself. There were meals to plan and prepare, clothes to wash, the house to clean, the lawn, the garden, the house, the cars, the kids' activities, social "appearances" necessary to her husband's employment, others necessary to her own.