Christian Homemaking: The Holy Work of Mundane Life

Christian homemaking-The Holy Work of Mundane Life

There’s something really important I need to tell you today about homemaking.

Someone posted this quote today, so I decided to stop everything I’d planned for, and Bible journal.

“On the darkest days, when I feel inadequate, unloved, and unworthy, I remember whose daughter I am, and I straighten my crown” (unknown author)

Because there’s nothing I’m doing today that is more important, than finally spending some time with God.

I don’t want to feel like He is something on my “to do” list, can you relate?

But that isn’t what this post is about, really.

Who, or what, is influencing our “to-do” list anyway? (check out great Christian homemaking blogs here)

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them- Louise May Alcott, Little Women

The Holy Work Of The Mundane from christa on Vimeo.

Does mundane mean boring?

Sometimes there’s a danger in beautiful social media feeds.

Of believing that everyone sits there creating holy work with their art supplies all day long. Or decorating the Pinterest-perfect house. Or making all the kid’s clothes from scratch.

Mundane: everyday, normal, commonplace, routine, ordinary…how about a place where beauty lives? Reframing the perspective makes drudgery change its value.

Proverbs 14:1 “The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.”

While you might be making careful budgeting for food for your family, again. Half of which might get thrown on the floor you hoped to mop but a messy toddler.

Doing a load of laundry, wiping boogers off a child’s face, trying to referee between siblings, getting your homeschooling done, and feeling woefully inadequate.

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”- Ludy Maude Montogmery, Anne of Green Gables

A look at Christian homemaking

Your work matters more than you know.

Ecclesiastes 9:10a “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.”

Maybe you are trying to run a home business, or handle chronic illness, or be a friend to someone whose needs outweigh your capability.

Running errands, or moving or trying to just calm the 1,000 thoughts in your mind.

This is important, honorable work! Even when it feels like the most boring stuff ever. Sometimes that is true, but often? We are missing something special in embracing the ordinary as a pursuit of joy.

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world- C. S. Lewis

Does mundane homemaking really matter?

There are a million things you’re probably doing besides creating beautiful art all day.

But there’s something I want you to know…

Those things? Those mundane things? You are creating holy artwork today.

The things that we do on a daily basis? If our larger picture is doing it because we love God?

That is Holy work my friends— don’t believe the lies that say it’s nothing. Because it’s everything.

How can I be a fulfilled Christian homemaker?

It’s humble worship at its finest. Creating something beautiful out of the imperfect.

I’ve got art supplies, and it doesn’t make it any easier to find the time to use them.

When I can? It is glorious and deeply fulfilling.

Yet…

“I have found that there is romance in housework: and charm in it; and whimsy and humor without end. I have found that the housewife works hard, of course–but likes it.

Most people who amount to anything do work hard, at whatever their job happens to be. The housewife’s job is home-making, and she is, in fact, ‘making the best of it’; making the best of it by bringing patience and loving care to her work; sympathy and understanding to her family; making the best of it by seeing all the fun in the day’s incidents and human relationships.

The housewife realizes that home-making is an investment in happiness. It pays everyone enormous dividends. There are huge compensations for the actual labor involved…There are unhappy housewives, of course.

But there are unhappy stenographers and editresses and concert singers. The housewife whose songs I sing as I go about my work, is the one who likes her job”

MAJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS

Christian homemaking is marked by joy

The mundane shows where our joy can be found.

We all have the “dailies” that dictate how we spend the bulk of our time. It is imperative to recognize the gifts in the mundane.

They are the powerful markers that guide us into gratitude and joy.

If this resonated with you, you might love my free devotional, Grace for the Stuck: A 7-Day Invitation to Slow Down and Breathe.

It’s a simple, grace-filled guide to help you slow down, rest, and remember that even in the blur of ordinary days, your life holds deep meaning.

You can grab it free here.