In order to listen, we need to stop talking.

Sounds simple, right?

Here's Donna Otto.

My husband is a kind of man who has very important things to say.

He's very bright.

He's very deep.

He's very thoughtful.

And if I talk too much, he's wonderful to listen to me,

but I don't hear what's in his heart.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Tuesday, May 16th.

Last week, we heard how a simple line drawing of a house greatly affected Donna Otto's life.

It helped her decide what quality she wanted in her home, and she has spent the rest of her life cultivating them.

She'll tell us more about it as she continues her conversation with Nancy.

We're talking with Donna Otto this week. She's the author of a book called Finding Your

Purpose as a Mom. And Donna, I want to thank you for writing that book and for joining us

here this week on Revive Our Hearts. Thank you. It's great to be with you. And Donna, our listeners can't see this, but you've handed to each of us women in the room a piece of paper here with a simple line drawing of a house.

Tell us how we can use this tool to put on paper the picture, the plan that God gives us for our home.

Great. Well, it is a tool, and tools are very important to our

progress. It's setting a goal, which we've prayed over. It's preparing now something that we can

move into our action steps. So the first thing I would say is make two line drawings. Give one to

your husband, and then synthesize it, distill it down to bite sizable plan for your family draw

into that the kinds of character traits you want your children to have will your home be certainly a

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