Purpose not Perfection | Faith, Home, & Family
Homemaking is about so much more than simply how well you clean your house. It’s about creating a space where your family can gather together and feel comforted and loved.
“Who can say I have made my heart clean? I am pure from sin.”Proverbs 20:9
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Psalm 51:7
I’m going to be honest with you. In my early years as a mom, I struggled with a lot of aspects of being a mom and with homemaking. I was a terrible housekeeper and I had a lot of shame associated with it. That’s why today I want to talk about what it’s like when …
“If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.” Isaiah 1:19
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? 1 Timothy 3:5
A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away… Ecclesiastes 3:6
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal…” Matthew 6:19
But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. Psalm 59:16
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. Ephesians 5:26-27
But all things should be done decently and in order. 1 Corinthians 14:40
