31 Days to clean.....Day 2

This is gonna be a long month.  I'm on Day 2 and still pondering Day 1.  LOL  Day 1 is supposed to have me creating a mission statement for why I want a clean home.  Then I'm supposed to "dress it up", frame it, etc.

Here's my mission statement on why I want a clean home:

IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD!

That's it.  There's nothing else.  That's exceedingly selfish, don't you think? When things are in order, I feel better about myself.  Blah....I'm feeling inadequate right now.  Feel like there should be more.  I should have some fancy schmancy, eloquent thing to say about this.  I don't.

Day 2 says I should ponder what I can do to bring life to my home, husband, children and my sphere of influence.

Again....blah.  I need more Yeshua in my life.  Heck, I just need people to know who I'm talking about when I say that name.  THAT is how I can bring life to my home and family.  For Yahweh to be known, for His son Yeshua to be honored.  I feel like I finally know what "pray without ceasing" actually means now.  For me, it means being in the continual presence of Yahweh and KNOWING it. I want my family to feel that as well.  I want my children to be saturated with Christ.

What I'm gonna do to bring life to my home, my husband, my children and those in my sphere of influence is show love......

Sometimes that means getting up and fixing Greg breakfast that he can grab and take on his way to work even though I don't particularly enjoy waking up at 5:45 am when he's on 1st shift week.  Or maybe just ONCE I could smile as he's on his way out the door when it's 3rd shift week.  Next week I'm gonna put that into practice.  I'm sure it's disheartening for him to have a wife that's crying over his job all the time.  Sometimes that means stopping my work to look at something silly that my children have done/made, etc.  Thankfully I have a job that I CAN stop at any time to attend to their needs/wants.  Sometimes that means sharing what Yahweh has placed upon my heart with a world and friends that don't want to hear it.

I want my Lord and Savior to be evident in everything that I do. I want others to look at me and think......"where is Stephanie, cause I can't see her"?

THAT is how I hope to bring life to the world.  If everyone did that....eventually all we would see....... would be our Creator.

Oh, by the way.....Day 2 "Martha Challenge" is to thoroughly clean my fridge and freezer.  Blah.....  LOL  *here I go, kicking and screaming*