Home Mission Statement ~ Day 14

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 More mission statements? Didn't we just get done with your mini series on family mission statements? Well, yes.. but I promise, this is important too!

Do you ever look at your home and just feel discouraged? It's so easy to with pinterest boards, magazines, blogs, etc. showing us all of their perfection and making us realize the lack of perfection in our own homes. This month of drawing closer to God I ask myself what it is God wants from my home. Is it perfection? Not at all. 

Kelly over at Imperfect Homemaking shared how to create a home mission statement. With her post, prayer for Gods direction, and discussing it with my husband we came up with this:

Why is this important to drawing close to God? Because without knowing what purpose God wants for our home, it's too easy to get distracted by other things. For me personally, my home is a really important part of God's plan for me. I'm a stay at home mom with a passion for hospitality. However, I have to add things like "relatively clean" and "whenever possible" because if I dont all of my homes imperfections plague me. Because of this I know that while God desires my focus to be on my home, he does not desire my home to be perfect.

Do you have a mission statement for your home? Would you share it with me?

This doesn't come naturally.

I will let you in on a little secret...
My house is not spotless. Not even a little. This is actually not a surprise at all to my family, or my best friends growing up. My mama always told me it looked like a tornado went through my room. My best friend, Brittany, used to clean my room for me when she came over. Yes, it was that bad.


 I tell you that slightly embarrassing piece of information  so that you know, when it comes to homemaking, I am no expert. Though I wish I was, and I someday hope to be. That's one reason why I started this blog. To document what I'm learning and share it with you. To ask for advice, share advice, and hopefully at the end of the day we will both be inspired to make our homes a little more homey.


The hardest part of keeping house for me is staying on top of the clutter. In the interest of full disclosure this is what my house looks like right now. (but in my defense we just got back from vacation. Also, our A/C is broken and its 500 thousand BILLION degrees and I do not want to move from my spot in front of the fan)

What about you? Does cleaning and organizing come naturally or do you have to really work at it? Which part of housekeeping takes the most work for you?