Creating Home

Pin It I needed to change the title to our blog as I looked what Christ was doing in my life and what I want my children to remember of me. I am realizing how important the home is. I think this is why I love my garden so much too. It is a great word picture for what us moms do at home.

 I prep my garden it in the fall (or I am supposed too, I know we are going to do better this year). I think about it all winter, reading books and trying to figure out how to get a more fruitful crop next year. Then spring comes and I stalk the beautiful aisles and people at the fruit market and think of excuses to stop in one more time. Summer comes and I spend most of my time out there. Weeding, hoeing, watering, and watching. It consumes my thoughts during those summer months. Then, my favorite part... everything canned and frozen looking so abundant and rich on my shelves and in my freezers.

That is the same as what our home life has done to me, it consumes my thoughts, and more recently, my actions. I want to work the soil of our home life so that is prepped to grow a strong foundation in faith for my family. I want to study and read God's word tirelessly so that when the summer of my children's lives come I will be strong in wisdom and knowledge for them. I want to love to shop God's word and dream about the fruit that will come and the beauty that will be seen when my children choose to walk with the Lord ( 3 John vs.4), when they rise and call me blessed ( Prov. 31:28). Then, I want to work through the summer, the fruitful, hot, tiring, months and years of their lives. I want to weed and prune and shape them into little warriors and maidens in Chirst who know their strength and value in him. I want them to grow tall in their inheritance that awaits them as priests in the kingdom. I want to be the one out there in the garden of their lives. I want to pray over each little seed that is sown. Then I want to be able to sit back and look at the beauty of Christ in them. The abundant, rich, beautiful, committed life in Jesus.


This is what happens at home.

Home is the place that gives me the time and the challenges to model Christ through the hardships and the blessings. This is my call, my battlefield, my ministry and my most important job. Everything I do throughout the day is for this end goal.