Today begins the Homemaker Challenge with the ebook, 31 Days to Clean. I am glad that my task today was "merely" to create a mission statement. I know some other folks have already jumped on to the next day's task. I may or may not do that as there are some other things that I would like to get accomplished today. Mondays can be a little crazy as we have grandparents over in the morning to take care of Miss A while I take Miss L to speech therapy (today was AWESOME!) On top of that, today began our shower remodel so we have an assortment of people in and out of the house. Thankfully, they were done well before nap time and will resume tomorrow. Minor adjustments but still more activity around here than we are used to for sure.
So, a mission statement. I have never been good at writing them as I always think that all the ones that other people write are far superior and much more eloquent. I read some of the statements written by others in the challenge and found a few that I liked. However, Joyful Mothering recommended reading Inspired to Action's Mission Statements for Moms e-book. I skimmed it enough to have some tracks to run on and I finally settled on the following mission statement:
My family needs a sanctuary in which to find peace, strength, encouragement and love. By the grace of God I hope towards this by doing my best to model loving, godly behavior, be diligent in our work in and outside the home, and to speak words that strengthen the souls of my husband and children so that we might be continually united as a family that endeavors to create a life-giving, loving and Christ-centered home.
I think that this was a good exercise in that I have a clear and concise vision of the end goal. This is vision that I can put in front of myself for many years and not just a short season until "such and such" is accomplished. For me, it is also convicting as I reflect on how much damage my tongue can do and has done. (ouch!)
Somehow I am supposed to make it all pretty and such. I may do that later but I will print it up and post it on the inside of my pantry door where I keep other Scripture, encouragement, my calendar, and meal plan.. I'll see it... often.
I look forward to reading more statements. If you stop in and have a post about yours, please leave a link in the comments!
Hey, I might do this. :-) I assume you remember me telling you I used to do FlyLady... Went on to develop my own system. Now that's not working so well anymore. Different house, different season in life, children different ages, family has different needs and priorities, etc. etc.
ReplyDeleteNice job! I think this was the hardest Mary challenge for me this week...although I haven't yet done Day 5 and it seems like from others that was a hard one as well...we shall see! I think having a reminder in front of us is always good -- I mean, professionals do stuff like this all the time to motivate employees, why aren't we as homemakers also doing it to motivate ourselves!
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