Do you remember the excitement when you got your first place?

Did you spend time making it reflect you? Making sure it was comfortable and pretty?

Did you invite guest over to share in your home?

It’s kind of like falling in love… you have so many hopes and dreams of what this new phase of life will be like… you love working at it.

And then something happens…

continuous laundry…

more dishes to wash…

no one is grateful…

It is easy to lose the passion and the joy for our home.

You may lose your joy in homemaking because:

The busyness of life. You may have many demands on you and homemaking gets pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities.

The day-in day-out mundane tasks that no one notices seems to be work with no real reward. You no sooner finish cleaning up from one meal and your people are hungry AGAIN!

Your heart is seeking worldly desires that pull you away from a heart towards home. More fun… more money… more significance…

And probably the most common hindrance-

Hard Providences such as sickness, financial hardships, marital struggles or rebellious children can rob you of strength and desire to make home a pleasant and beautiful place. You may feel like it is no use to even try when life is unraveling around you.

And then there is pure, flat out laziness.

 

Whatever the reason, we all struggle with wanting to be a good homemaker at times, but it doesn’t excuse the fact that it is our duty. If we are not making HOME who will?

 

How to Find that Joy

• Pray, ask God for a clean heart and a renewed spirit. He is faithful to give abundantly.
• Stay in the Word. Read what God requires of women.
• Stay away magazines, blogs and movies that make a mockery of homemaking.
• Surround yourself with positive people.
  • Find women that love their home and their family.
  • Find women who use their home for good works.
  • Stay away from social circles that encourage you to always be busy away from home as they look for the next best thing.
• Delegate!
  • Be sure you are teaching your children HOW to do things and do them well.
  • Enlist help. Have a teen girl in once a week, or even once a month to help clean or organize, or maybe she can entertain the children while you clean. There is NO shame in hiring help if you need it - as long as YOU are doing YOUR duty!
• Keep your calendar and house clutter free! This is the biggest struggle.
• Find resources that will equip you, like my DVDs and this amazing bundle!
• Remember Who you work for. Do all things as unto the Lord. Even if no one else notices, God does. He knows your deepest thoughts and desires. You are building up your treasure in heaven where no rust or moth will destroy it.

Homemaking is a full time job, it is our duty.

Ladies, if YOU don’t make your house a home, who will?

 

Let me encourage you; you are building a HOME of brick, one little brick at a time.

MANY years later, with consistency and wisdom you will have a house - a home that will stand! Not only will this house stand, but it will provide shelter, food, rest, encouragement and love for you and all those who walk through the door.

You MAKING HOME will cause your adult children to want to come home after they are out on their own.

You are building a home, not only of brick and mortar, but of love, admonishment and memories that will be forever engraved on the hearts of all who enter!