I got a quite a lot of positive response from my “keeper at home” post a while back… It seems to resonate with a lot of you, so I thought I would keep going with that thought.
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Powerful words, don’t you think? One of the commenters said, “All those little homemaking moments… all the repetitive chores are part of building a glimpse of His Kingdom.” What a great perspective!
THAT is what I want for my home, and THAT is what I work for every day — creating opportunities to display the beauty of the Gospel through my faithfulness in the practical (and sometimes mundane) every day tasks of managing my home and loving my family.
Right now it seems like the “KonMarie” method of tidying up is taking over everything — and while I love a beautifully organized drawer as much as the next girl, that’s not the end goal. It’s not enough just to make things pretty and organized. As the keepers and tone-setters of our homes… shouldn’t our goal be more than pretty? Shouldn’t our goal be Jesus in everything?
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I have never felt like I am particularly skilled or gifted or inclined to any one thing (I changed my major — drastically — twice). But since becoming a wife, and especially since becoming a missionary where home is somewhat fluid — I finally feel like I am coming into myself, and really think that this is my calling and gifting: keeping home. I thrive on making my home, home, even when home changes every few months or years. It fills my little homemaker heart and makes me so happy to have a clean, cozy, pretty, welcoming, safe, comfortable home.
Some practical ways that I do that are: candles, good food, paper plates, less stuff, music, and an eternal mindset. It feels like all of the pieces of this truth are only just now finally starting to click together for me; I’m definitely still a work-in-progress, but thankfully Jesus doesn’t get tired of “working” on us.
So, tell me… how do you keep your home?
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