Making Your Home a Haven Monday: Refresher Series
Since it's been almost six months since we first started this Making Your Home a Haven feature, I thought it might be helpful over the next few weeks for us to go back and go through the initial challenge as a refresher to us all.Welcome to the Making Your Home a Haven Challenge! Are you ready to get your home more in order and bless your family in the process? I know I am.
Today's Challenge:
1. Refresh Your Spirit (5 minutes)
Take five minutes, brew a cup of tea or coffee or pour yourself a tall glass of iced tea or ice water with fresh-squeezed lemon, and sit down and be still before the Lord. Pray, read something from God's Word, and take a moment to thank the Lord for His goodness and blessing in your life.
Having a home that is a haven starts with an inner peace in our own hearts, a quiet resting in the Lord. You can have a beautifully decorated home with everything neat and orderly, but if you are frazzled and frustrated, your home will not be a peaceful place. After all, the saying is so true, "If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
So before you do anything else today, take time to refresh your spirit in the Lord.
2. Take Time to Plan (5 minutes)
Today's planning project is centered on a morning routine. This is a habit I usually follow pretty faithfully, but the last few weeks I've fallen off the bandwagon. I'm determined to get back on track, though, as this is such a tremendous help to the rest of my day!
Write down five things you want to do in the same order every morning. Keep it simple and only stick to five things. If five things seem overwhelming, start with three. Starting somewhere is better than not starting at all!
We'll be keeping each other accountable for our morning routines over the next few weeks. Put your list in a very conspicuous place and consult it first thing each morning.
I'd love to have you post your list on your blog to share with us.
3. Do Something! (5 -15 minutes)
Each day I'm going to be giving you a simple organizational task to complete in your home. And today we're going to start at the very beginning - a very good place to start!
Put on an apron, light a candle, and turn on some uplifting music. Then go to your front door and pretend you are a first-time visitor to your home. Walk in and take a look around. What is your immediate impression of your home? Is it calm and clean or cluttered and chaotic? Take five to fifteen minutes to clean, de-clutter, and beautify your entry area. Do a quick pick up if there are items out of place, mop or vacuum the floor, shake the rug, spot clean the walls, and rearrange things.
Take before and after pictures if you'd like and post them to share with us.
I'll be posting my pictures and telling you more about what I did for the challenge today in a later post. I'm off to get started!
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Would you like to join us in this "Making Your Home a Haven" Challenge? Just do one or more of the challenges listed above or something else related to "making your home a haven" and post about it on your blog. Come back here and leave your link below so that we can be inspired!
Labels: Making Your Home a Haven
posted by Crystal Paine at 6:00 AM
4 Comments:
Crystal,
This has come at a good time. My oldest son will be done with school in less than two weeks, and my morning routine has already started unraveling. I'm due with baby #4 in August, and it seems we need to start from scratch again! The good thing is that I already know that this morning routine thing will change as life changes, but for now I hope to keep up with the series!
(P.S) My husband and I read Total Money Makeover, and we are both on board and even quickly accomplished Baby Step #1. Then, of course, last night happened. (It's what I blogged about today.) But it's not even slowing us down. We are both thinking like gazelles these days. Thanks for your blogs and for telling us about Dave Ramsey!
Your sister in Christ,
Merrilee
I've never participated before, but I thought I would this time. Thanks for the good time!
Great timing! I needed to get my stockpile in order. This is my first time participating, and I am so very blessed by it! Thanks!
I have posted my new morning routine in the sidebar of my blog.
Blessings!
Camy
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