All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities” (p. 32).

Schaeffer's husband Francis died in 1984 but Edith Schaeffer continued to be associated with the L'Abri organisation which Edith Schaeffer and her husband founded. In 1955 they began L'Abri a community that welcomed people who were seeking intellectually honest and culturally informed answers to questions about God and the meaning of life. It was there that Edith Schaeffer met Francis Schaeffer and they were married in 1935.

Her What is a Family? (1975) compared the extended family to a mobile. In 1955 they began L'Abri a community that welcomed people who were seeking intellectually honest and culturally informed answers to questions about God and the meaning of life. It won a Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian PubliEdith Schaefferrs Association (ECPA) in 1979.