Pursuit of a Peaceful Home
Introduction
Welcome to the Home Organizing for Beginners podcast.
In this podcast you’ll get tangible and simple instructions about home organizing. Instructions that keep you, your family, and your current season of life at the core; all while glorifying God in the process so that you and your family can finally feel true peace and joy.
I’m your host Tammy.
In today’s episode we’re diving deeper into pursuing a peaceful home. There’s more to what makes a home peaceful than how organized and clean it is. I’m confident that you realize that, but perhaps you struggle to truly define what it is and how to pursue it.
In 18 years of marriage and raising 3 children into their teenage years, I’ve found that I truly do set the tone inside our home. When I feel frustrated and am snapping at the kids to clean up, then everyone else is cranky too. When I feel like I have my act together, then everyone else seems to truly not be able to do anything wrong.
There’s so much I wish I would have known sooner, when my kids were younger, when my marriage was younger too. I would have done so much differently if I’d known then what I know now. This is what I would like to do for you. Give you a space to come to get help, ask questions without feeling judged. Go to www.homeorganizingforbeginners.com and click join the community.
Pursuing a peaceful home starts with you.
How you perceive yourself matters. How you care for or not care for yourself matters. How you serve others inside and outside your home matters. All these things and more matter in pursuing a peaceful home.
Today I want to help you see how you can make a physical change in your home that will benefit how you feel about the chaos and mess. I want to help you see how the anxiety and frustration can melt away, most of the time. We are not pursuing perfection, we’re pursuing a peaceful home.
Here is where you start. Carve out a space in your home to call your own. I’m not suggesting that you build a she-shed or anything like that. It is simply a space for you.
When you have a space to call your own, you have a place you can go to recoup and to rest. This space can represent when mom needs some time alone. This is a healthy thing to teach our children. In the Bible Jesus often retreated to a place to spend time alone and with God. If Jesus needed his space, how much more do we need that too.
Are you wondering how this is possible for you?
I’ll say that I was able to take over the entire office about 3 years ago. I actually gutted it, painted the walls and put in new flooring all by myself. I was determined to say the least. What I didn’t realize then was that it wasn’t about making the space look a certain way as much as it was to have it as mine. The revamped space became an easy way to tell everyone in the house that I needed to have space for my own things. Where my things didn’t go missing or get misplaced by someone borrowing them.
Though there are no doors, when I’m in my office, it is an indication to everyone that I do not want to be interrupted. Not in a rude way, just in a statement kind of way.
How can you do this if you don’t have an entire room? I’ve read that some moms would put their aprons over their heads to create this space and to communicate to her children that they should not interrupt her. I’m not suggesting that, but I would say that you can carve out a literal corner of the best room, place a chair and an end table there. That is your space.
This is where you can go to recover from the day. To be alone, to read devotionals. Sip some coffee first thing in the morning and have confidence that your book and glasses will be there, exactly where you set them the night before.
You deserve this. We are all so stinking busy doing for others and we do need to spend some time alone in order to have the capacity to manage our home and to serve others well.
Regardless of the chaos and mess of your home, when you take time to be alone, to think, to dive into the Word, you will find more peace and joy in your home.
That’s what I have for you today.
I hope this episode helps you work towards the peaceful home that you desire and I pray that you feel seen, heard, cared for and loved. I’ll see you back here next week!