To Love, Honor and Vacuum: chapter 3
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This Ain’t My Mama’s House!
We’ve been making our way through “to love, honor and vacuum” and this is one week that I was looking forward to talking about.
We ALL want it. We want to utilize our time for “fulfilling purposes, pursuits and goals,” right? For most of us, if not ALL, housework is something that we HAVE to do and it’s just not a big ball of fun. Sheila tells us WHY we get so little out of those chores that all accumulate into “housework.” On page 51, she lays out quite well why it disagrees with most of us.
b.) never get thanked for
c.) never really finish, it just needs redone tomorrow
is likely not going to rate HIGH on the charts.
We are told in Scripture that:
“God made you unique and for a specific purpose. He did not make you an extension of someone else; He simply made you.”
Psalm 139
(page 55)
With that being said, are you concentrating and focusing on God’s purposes for you and your family or are you spinning on a hamster wheel just running in endless circles, not one step closer to becoming the person that you were put on this earth to be?
hmmmmm……
Sheila suggests that we look at our standards. We all have em! Some are high, some are low and MANY are unattainable. Many of us have as Sheila examines, “exhausting standards, unattainable standards, stifling standards or conflicting standards.” Most of us fall into one or more of these categories.
I do.
I fall head first into unattainable, exhausting and conflicting standards at times……There, my secrets are EXPOSED!
How can we change it? I’ve learned that sitting around waiting for “my people” to change is a waste of my time and energy, I need to change myself.
HOW?
We can examine these three questions that Sheila asks us on page 58-59.
Are you a good steward of your gifts?
Are you providing a stumbling block to others?
Facts are that chores HAVE to be done. Sinks accumulate dishes and laundry piles up and SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT.
It WILL take commitment, it will take patience, it will take undoing some bad habits, but if we commit to tossing the myths out the window, we will let in a breeze that change us forever!
Join me back here on October 11th where we’ll move on to Chapter 4, Balancing Tipped Scales.
Until then…..
I encourage you to look to your life, the myths and how you can make changes to become the fulfilled, purposeful woman that God created you to be….we were all created for something, every one of US!
Chapters:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Lori is a 5 year homeschool mom to 3. Currently a 8th grader, a 6th grader and a 4th gra
der. Lori insists that when she was wrestling with the decision to home school, a gentle voice guided her with the words, “you know what you should do.” Never looking back, accepting the challenges and rewards and CONSTANTLY clinging to THE ROCK…”No Storm can shake my inmost calm when to this ROCK I’m clinging.” Lori hopes to impart peace and inspiration amidst the daily chaos. Be sure to visit her blog at All You Have to Give.
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