Joyful Homemaker

I have felt it on my heart to be more joyful in the work God has called me to as a homemaker. I want to have a desire to serve my family by cooking and cleaning. I want to be joyful through the many repetitive chores of a home maker. I want to see my to do list as an opportunity to serve the people I love the most, my family.

I often found myself dreading cleaning the kitchen for the third time that day. I hate to admit this one, but I felt like packing my husbands lunch was just another task on my seemingly never ending to do list. God called me out by putting it on my heart that it is not just packing a lunch, it’s serving my husband! I love my husband dearly and I want to serve him! What a difference that change in perspective can be! Do I want to clean my kitchen for the third time today? No! But do I want to serve my husband by having a clean comfortable home to rest in after a hard days work? Absolutely! This perspective has changed my whole outlook on everything I do!

Now of course there are there times on a long hard day where I am exhausted and I don’t feel like cleaning up the kitchen after dinner. However, I am trying my best to be a joyful homemaker in those times. I am learning to serve with a joyful heart. I am trying to replace my sigh of exhaustion and defeat with a smile and a joyful heart that trusts that the Lord will give me the strength I need to serve my family.

This change in my heart has not only made for a happier home but it has also made me more joyful. These every day chores are things that need to be done, it’s our choice whether we do them with a sulking attitude or a joyful attitude. I have found if I have a joyful attitude I can genuine enjoy serving our family through them.

I am so grateful for how God placed this on my heart. I have enjoyed my calling as a homemaker more than ever since God has been working on me in this way.

“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.”

‭‭Titus‬ ‭2:3-5‬