This morning I ask myself, what do I want my life as a homemaker - as Tony's homemaker - to be? What should it look like? What is my heart attitude in it? What are my motives? This is what my heart is feeling drawn to, during these last days of 2011. I don't want to just wash to dishes, just scrub the kitchen floor, just fold clothes, just make the bed, just cook dinner. I want these things to be done with purpose, remembering to do it all joyfully as unto the Lord. I heard recently that because Jesus was both 100% God and 100% man, there is a marriage between heaven and earth, there is a since of nobility as I meet the practicality of this day to day life. It is a great, high honor to be a daughter of the King with a husband and home to care for ... and I want to care for them well!!!
A super sweet, generous, warm-hearted girl who loves her husband, family, and friends very well. She is one of the dearest friends one can ever have. Because of the great love that God has put in her heart, she joyfully serves her family, treasures their everyday moments of togetherness, and practices a heart of gratitude on a daily basis... naming her grace gifts regularly. She has a love for domestic tasks, 400 thread count sheets, picture taking, & grand hospitality. When faced with trials, dark times, hurts, and agony, she recalls all the goodness and grace God has extended to her and her family through all her days, as well as the throughout history. She remembers that every cloud has on it some bit of silver lining and that God loves her oh so much. Her home is a true sanctuary, a haven, a resting place.
When my name is spoken of I so desire these character traits to be thought of. I want to be this person; this person that leaves a great god-honoring legacy for my children, grandchildren, great-great-great grandchildren. This is the bigger picture ~ that my life now impacts the legacy I will leave! This multi-generational mindset molds me this very moment and is the framework in which I want to live my life.
One who "keeps the house wisely and well, in prudent care and orderly comfort and cheerful peace, there, in the daily duties, trying and tasting her character issues in loveliness of bloom and blessedness of privilege, softly shadowing the household beneath its gracious power and unselfish gentleness; so that the heart of her husband rejoices in her, and the love which was planted within those wall strikes down its roots through all the thin soiled fancy and passion into the rich ground of manly reverence and honor, from which to draw a sustenance and life which shall keep it fresh and green in the midst of the years as those that are planted in the house of the Lord." -- from J.R. Miller's Home-making
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