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The goal of homemaking isn’t a perfectly clean and put-­together home. The goal is making our resources useful and available for building up people. This means that those large housework projects don’t need to be complete in order for us to be faithful in our work. The room doesn’t have to stay clean in order for cleaning it to be worth our time.

Set a timer for five minutes and do a brain dump. Then set a timer for another five minutes and pray about everything you just dumped onto paper.

A moment of panic has become a reminder that I have some things to give over to God, and I can be grateful for the reminder. My goal isn’t to avoid feeling overwhelmed, but to do the right thing with that feeling: pray.

I learned to pray and do the next thing without worrying about how “everything” would get done. My job isn’t to do everything on my list, but to take the next step of faithfulness where I am

“In order to meditate on the truth, we have to know the truth. To know truth, we have to be filling our mind with truth. Daily Bible reading and prayer are essential to an aligned and vibrant attitude. Without it, we are tossed on the winds of our emotions.” Love a simple quote like this!