Regarding this new series, I truly am enjoying all the insights into the plural family life. As each of our individual families have our own specific callings on them. God as we all know never creates any two individuals, nor any two families exactally alike. What works for one family, may not work for all families, as we all have our own struggles & victories. For the most part, we all have our own "issues or time issues, schedules," to work with on a daily basis. As our needs/issues can change daily or monthly, etc. We have yet to see all of this particular families daily living issues they may have & struggle with at any given time. For the most part, outside of what may be expected issues in a pm family, they all do seem to have a good, loving & respectful family unity among them all. Nothing in life is ever easy or without problems,or issues that need to be dealt with. Life is a learning journey and struggle at times. It seems as though that Kody and his family Keep on Keeping on with God and eachother to the best of their abilities with God's leading.
Btw, I like Kody's choice of clothing and his wives. But that's just my humble simple perspective, lol! I do get an overall healthy, joyous and positive perspective from Kody's family. Not a perfect family, as none of us are, but a humble loving one just struggling at times along the path that God has them on. As far as wondering about having a good/as equal as possible amount of time with his wives, I guess thats for them to figure out, as to what works best for them. They seem to do a fairly good job of balancing their time with one another, as Kody's second wife Janelle has shared that he is good with spending time with each of his wives, and meeting their personal needs, etc.
And as many of us mothers when having more than one child knows, we all learn to balance our love & time with our kiddos, so pm families should strive to learn to balance their time as well. Kody's family does seem to be working on this, especially with the adding of Robyn to the family. Look at the Duggar family, one mom/wife with 19 kiddos! They all pull together with the work load, daily shedules, etc to help one another out & for the parents to give love & attention to each of their kids to the best of their abilities. Are any of us, weather mono or poly ever really able to always balance our time & love equally? Of course not, but it should be a constant striving with God's help, mercy, grace & love to do so. All of us do deserve a " a little free time here & there," as long as it's in Godly balance & moderation without neglecting our husbands & families needs first & foremost. It's a fine line, a balancing act to seek out God's will in this through prayer & His leading of course. But none the less, we all can manage to have some alone time to study, pray, praise our heavenly father, coffee & fellowship with family & friends, etc, without hurting our families or taking too much time away from them. Again it's a matter of Godly balance & moderation in life, with our dh's and Lord's approval and leading of course. Besides if Michelle Duggar having 19 awesome kiddos on her own can manage a little time to her self every now & then, I feel confident that Kody & his family can work these issues out on their own, with God's leading for whats best for their own family.
I'm so looking forward to the rest of this series, and hope that TLC decides with the familie's permission of course to continue with it. I especially hope that this show will encourage other "Christian pm families," to step out in faith, if God so leads them to do so, and share their familie's testimony & daily living. It would be nice to have other Christian families "come out if you will," and show the world that pm is not just among the FLDS or a break off of the Mormon religion only. To show the true/Godly truth of Biblical pm, and the history of the patriarchs of the bible and One True God. Ahhh, maybe just wishful thinking!
But then again, we can pray and see where God leads in all of this.
F.S.
