It is one dimensional to think everything revolves around your kids and your job (no matter how interesting they are to you, most people just don't care). Expand your life experience today, take a risk, stretch outside your comfort zone, serve somebody, create or learn something that interests you on a non-professional level. Do something new or rather don't do what you always do.

As a former pastor, I can understand the angst and the feelings of personal failure when the crowd is thin or attendance is spotty at church. But as a believer, I can tell you that I have to push back against the urge to go to church some times just to feel I've "done my bit" and to check it off my list like a passive ritual. I am not going to church today but I have been very intentional about my relationship with God and his people this week. Every day I am making progress in some way.