There was a wonderful reminder on A Clean Heart this week. While we are working to organize, simplify, structure our houses and schedules we must not lose sight of our true goal - making a "home". More wonderful quotes come from Secrets of a Happy Home Life published in 1894:
"There are people sheltered in houses, which are not homes."
on a home:
"It may be a fine, great house, with rich furniture, costly pictures, and all the elegance of wealth; or it may be a little house, with four rooms, cheap furniture, homemade carpets, and empty of adornment. It makes very little difference what the size of the house, or what its furniture may be. The happiness of the home does not depend on the house or on what it contains; the people who live in the house MAKE happiness, - or mar it."
and never forget:
"Few things we can do in the this world are so well worth doing as the making of a beautiful and happy home. He who does this builds a sanctuary for God and opens a fountain of blessing for men. For more than we know, do the strength and beauty of our lives depend upon the home in which we dwell. He who goes forth in the morning from a happy, loving, prayerful home into the world's strife, temptation, struggle, and duty, is strong - inspired for noble and victorious living. the children who are brought up in a true home go out trained and equipped for life's battles and tasks, carrying in their hearts a secret of strength which will make them brace and loyal to God, and will keep them pure in the world's severest temptations."
Wow! Could we possibly we need more motivation than that?
I loved this post. I just throw away the Pottery Barn catalogs now and spend more time baking with my daughter.
Posted by: Jennifer | October 31, 2006 at 01:48 AM