Does your home feel chaotic and stressful? Are you looking for a way to make your home a peaceful haven for your entire family? I’ve written an ebook/workbook that will walk you step-by-step through the process of bring peace and beauty to your home. LEARN MORE HERE!
Wow ~ what a week!
We’ve adjusted our hearts, we’ve learned to greet the morning with a smile, we laugh in the face of unplanned interruptions, and we are enjoying more peaceful meals! Let’s tackle one more thing this week and then spend the weekend practicing peace in our homes! How about we take a look at the things we look at?
Is your home pleasing to the eye?
The post I did this past spring on Brainstorming Beauty in the Bedroom is exactly what I want you to do for the rest of your home! Read that post, print it out, carry it around your home with you and really think about the spaces in your home and what they say about you and your family.
My home is a mish-mash of family friendly couches and chairs, a buffalo head, and earthy accents that make me smile. This is a “lived-in” home and everyone who enters soon realizes they will be treated to good conversation and a lot of laughter.
If you are comfortable in your environment and feel peaceful there, that will naturally extend to those who enter your home.
I see it as a light. My home is a testimony to the peace of Christ within me. It doesn’t have to be fancy, it just has to be authentic.
So often we think our homes must be perfect in order to be pleasing to the eye, but that just isn’t true. Yes, we need to have a tidy environment, but perfectionism can actually be quite stressful as we try to maintain something that just isn’t meant to be.
Imagine the mother who has just slaved over her spotless home when suddenly her young toddler spills an entire cup of milk on the floor. If she has not learned to find peace and joy in her role as mother, that one cup of milk will spell her undoing. We must learn to laugh at the imperfections of our day and strive toward the essence of beauty rather than the appearance of perfection.
OK, here are a few quick and practical tips for creating a pleasing and peaceful environment (for more ideas, head over to my Brainstorming Beauty post!)
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Lisa Maria says
Great advice Amy! I’m afraid I’ve been one of those perfectionist moms who cry over spilt milk 😉
Rachel says
Thanks so much for this series, Amy, and especially this post. My house is so cluttered all the time and it drives me crazy. It makes Hubby even more crazy. I’ve really been feeling convicted about that in the last several months. It’s gotten somewhat better, but it’s really hard. I’m paralyzed by the mess and I don’t know what to do , so I tend to ignore it. Thanks so much for your gentle encouragement!
Heather says
I really needed this post today! I am newly married & trying to put our apartment together (I want it to be a reflection of us, while welcoming others into a cozy environment). We are on a very tight budget, so “shopping” through the stuff we already own is a great idea 🙂
Thank you & blessings!
Tauna says
Wow – this looks like an amazing series! I think I’ll start at the beginning. I’m excited about checking out the other “10 Days” blogs as well. Thanks!
Amy says
Thanks! The 10 Days are all so diverse…I need to spend some time looking around too!
Megan Snow says
Dear Amy,
After reading your post and your article on brainstorming beauty in the bedroom I decided I wanted to make our bedroom totally different. Our bedroom was the place our son Titus went to heaven from. It happened in may but still every moment of every day the events of that day play over and over in my mind. It is
the worse when I am in the bedroom. I decided to move the furniture all around and redecorate by using stuff from other rooms in our house. I found it to be a sort of healing thing to do. I also made a ‘memory shelf’ of things that remind my husband and I of happy times together. Also a healing thing for me. Thanks for the ideas.