Jammin'

Winter Retreat is coming up. [It won't be winter but that's okay.] Was scheduled to start a new SS series on Acts. Need to visit some people. And am teaching an entire gospel each Wednesday night. Things feel a little jammed together right now.
But I enjoyed teaching Matthew's gospel last night. The retreat stuff will come together because it will and it has to. I'll delay the Acts series until I'm ready. And the visits will happen because people are important. So with all this activity, what could be better?
Well, I need to be careful with my family. I could be absorbed by the job/ministry stuff and let them drift away. We had a good night at The Whiting Tuesday night and really enjoyed the Wizard of Oz. It was definitely more captivating and more fun than Annie. The busyness could be fun but it'll be worthless and shameful if I let the family go kapoot.
I'm reminded of 1 Timothy 5:8 "If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever." Although the immediate context is speaking to material matters, there's plenty of biblical weight to apply this to spiritual matters as well.
God, I need help to not be a slacker in providing for my family. Don't let me be materially or spiritually cheap with them.