I was majorly behind on laundry during a busy season with our small business & felt like I was failing in the homemaking department. One night we got home late from our Christmas Tree Market, I was exhausted & desperately wanting to crawl into my camper bed. But we needed clean clothes to wear for the day ahead, so I stayed up even later to work some homemaking magic.
But I honestly just wasn’t feeling it!
The Holy Spirit showed up to my pity party that night & gave me a change of heart & mind. “Use this quiet time as a time to worship & praise & talk to God”. I immediately felt ashamed for pitching a fit. How selfish I had acted. So stuck in my own head, fixed on my own selfish thoughts.
God showed up in my laundry room that night & for the first time ever, I was slightly sad when I reached the bottom of my baskets, having enjoyed that time communing with Him.
This has forever changed how I face baskets of laundry & really all of my tedious homemaking tasks. Approaching each task as time to reflect, repent, worship, praise & pray.
With every fold, every right side out flip, every hanger, every matched sock, & sorting of piles. I praise & meditate on the goodness of God.
When we seek God with our whole heart, we will find Him everywhere….
Even in the laundry room!
My part is to live this hour in continuous inner conversation with God and in perfect responsiveness to his will, to make this hour gloriously rich. This seems to be all I need to think about.
Frank Laubach
I know there are distractions at every turn but stay focused on what truly matters. Guard your heart & set boundaries because the enemy seeks to devour.
This comes to mind – Matthew 26:36-46
36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.” 37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. 38 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”
39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
40 Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
42 Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.” 43 And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
44 So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. 45 Then He came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand.”
Stay awake, fam!
-kortney sue
