I LOVE housework & homework...

... especially when I can focus only on housework (for the most part)!

For those of you who may or may not know, I LOVE to keep a neat and clean home (although it may not always seem that way sometimes). I am quite the perfectionist, but now with 3 little kids, I am finding that things are not always going to be perfectly clean. The Lord has been and continues to teach me that THAT IS OKAY! I have, however, learned that if things cannot be perfectly clean, they can at least be picked up and neat and appear to be clean which is where I am finding the balance in my "perfectionist" ideal of our home.


Although I have not always LOVED doing housework, I am finding that I am appreciating the times that I am able to do it. I find that when I am doing housework (without having any other distractions around - like Nate, the kids, other obligations, or a mind full of junk and ideas and anything else that makes a Mom not think straight-which is not very often!)...when I am quiet and doing a mindless task...the Lord speaks to me and teaches me.


For instance, I was vacuuming the downstairs today while Owen and Letty were napping and Daddy and Ivy were taking our garbage to the dump and before my Mom and my mother-in-law arrived (Why do visitors always give a person a great big incentive to clean up the house a bit?)! As I was vacuuming, I began thinking and praying about our new little church and the issue of leadership. I have also been reading through the book of Acts as that is our "homework" for the month of September via our Pastor. The Lord taught me during this little intimate time of vacuuming with Him that there were leaders in the early church - the 11 apostles with Peter being the leader persay and eventually an additional apostle - Matthias. Those leaders took care of the physical and spiritual needs of the early church until they realized they needed to only take care of the spiritual needs of the church thus naming deacons to care for the physical needs. The Lord also revealed that He uses ministering to people's physical needs to reach people's spiritual needs (i.e. the lame man was healed (physically and spiritually and then 3,000 more were reached spiritually because that physical need was met)!

This may not make sense to many of you, but I was so encouraged and so in awe that the Lord would care for me so much as to teach me and show me things in mundane, ordinary tasks.

Lord, I LOVE you! AND, I LOVE that I can do housework and homework with You!


Praise God for my sweet times of learning with Him and accomplishing a task, all at the same time!