Build Your Home
Building our homes is a wonderful blessing
When we feel like grumbling and complaining about all our to-dos. Let us always remember that there is always something to be grateful for. There will always be dishes, dirty clothes as well as messes. When these things happen let us always remember that we have food in our bellies (hence the dishes), clean clothes on our back (hence the dirty clothes) as well as a place to live and call home (hence the piles of messes everywhere). So when these inevitable things happen let us rejoice and be glad. It is a true blessing.
When we look at it this way, we are instantly less stressed and more joyful because what is the alternative? We have no clothes, no food, no home? Or we could just get a maid but where would be the fun in that lol. In all seriousness, it is better for us to build up our homes even if we did have the finances to hire a maid because who can love our families better than us? They might make it sparkle but we can make it shine! Sure they are housekeepers, but we are the keepers of our homes! We are the ones that can give all of the cuddles, make clean up time fun, use the secret ingredient (love) when we provide food for our families. There is honestly no comparison, not to say we can never require help. Absolutely not! Depending on our season in life help is definitely need it from time to time. However, when we depend solely on others to run our home things just do not feel the same. It would be more of a place to live rather than our homes.
When we build up our homes we fill it up with love. Think of a warm and soothing beverage on a cold winter day or a cold and refreshing glass of water when it feels like a million degrees outside. A safe place, a haven. Some where to run to and feel free, a place that can shelter you from the storm, a place where we can just be. However, to be surrounded by chaos always one can never truly relax. Will messes be made? Absolutely! But instead of grumbling and complaining we will look at it for what it is and whistle while we work. Building up our homes for the joy and comfort of our families but also for the glory and honor of the LORD.
If you look at Proverbs 14: 1, It speaks of a foolish woman and a wise woman. The wise woman builds her house while the foolish one tears it up with her own hands. We can tear up our homes by muttering, complaining, being grumpy all the time, stepping on toys all the time and then yelling about it. Not having clean clothes or foods for our families to eat and on and on. I know it seems like a lot to manage but God would not have placed this responsibilities on us if we could not manage it. Not to mention while the husband is the head of the home we are the CEO’s we can delegate tasks don’t forget that portion. We are homemakers not martyrs you can absolutely have a chore chart if it fits your families style. Manage your home in a way that makes sense to you and yours. But while we do all that let’s make sure that we are the wise woman not the foolish one.
To become the wise woman we are to build up our homes. Make it make sense for you and your family, have a schedule or a system in place to run our home smoothly. Schedules are not these rigid things they can be super flexible as much as you want them too. But they also help to alleviate stress because you know exactly when certain things should be done to have the home run with ease. Things are not surprising you or going missing we will get there little by little this is a marathon not a sprint. However, in the meantime let us make our home full of joy, fun and laughter. A haven, a shelter to run to, a place where the door is open and the soul is soothed, a place where one can just be. A place to call home. 💛
