This year has been a crazy one for me, and I know I’m not the only one that resonates with that. It has taught me so much about myself and my surroundings and how they affect each other. Most of us learned a lot about this during the recent pandemic, being home all the time. We learned (and continue to) how much our environment is affected by our hearts, feelings, thoughts, and mind. This year expanded on this for me. This is exactly what I want to talk about today with you. Learning how our hearts tell our home.
Learning how our Hearts tell our Home
This year, as I mentioned was crazy one that taught me and continues to teach me lessons about my environment, myself and my life.
A big portion of my year I spent pretty sick, wrestled with depression, extreme stress and anxiety amidst that. But I wasn’t the only one noticing these things in myself.
This isn’t because I told everyone around me everything I was going through but I showed it.
Christian woman are directly associated with their homes, their environment, the cultivation of everything and everyone around them. We are helpers, we build up, we produce, bring life— but in sin, we can actually produce the opposite. Our relationships break down, our homes become cluttered and messy, our families lose smiles, and often times this is not simply a reflection of external- but internal- things. Such as our hearts.
The more anxious I felt and the more sick I got this year the more my home and environment fell apart. My relationships, my room, my kitchen, my self care, my relationship with God, my church life, my work life (or lack there of). Everything got messy- everything relaxed. My external circumstances reflected and still do (and my always) my internal feelings. Our lives will produce what seeds we plant within ourselves or what weeds we never pluck.
SO WHAT DO WE DO WHEN WE WANT TO CHANGE OUR ENVIRONMENT?
We work on our hearts.
If our hearts tell our home, the solution to much of the chaos around us can be cured with a change in our own lives. Working on your heart works on your friendships, gives you the energy to clean your home, the capacity you need to work, and the love it takes to enhance and cultivate amazing environments.
We do this in many ways, but the most important comes when we fall into the humility that leads to the feet of the cross of Jesus, which is a lap of grace and mercy. This all flowing from love and this is a love that covers all pain, sin, destruction and chaos in our hearts, lives, minds, and spirits. This is the beginning. A beginning with next steps. Steps to cultivate good community in church. Finding help in wise counsel to work on ourselves and our wounds. Reading the Word. Once we are healed and filled is when we can overflow to others and our environments. Once we find all we need in Yahweh, we will have what it takes on us, to make change our homes.
This is how our hearts tell our home. This is the beginning to make both better.
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