Is your house filled with yelling children, loud talk, spiteful words, and hasty action. Does choas reign within your walls and make you want to hide in the bathroom? I am on a journey to create peace within my home. I want my home to be a relaxing place for people to come. Not place where they have to go into therapy for stress rehab when they leave.
Now my home is occupied by five young children so I know there are times when the running, giggling, screaming choas will fill these walls. But as I want my children to learn a good work ethic, I want them to learn the discipline of knowing when it is appropriate to be loud and wild and when we need to “seek peace and pursue it”. If we are truly striving to create peace within our homes we must be “at peace” in our hearts. True peace can only come with true contentment.
But as I have been focusing on creating peace I have realized a few things. Most of which are not encouraging to this journey toward a peace-filled home. The first of which seems the most obvious and yet we sometimes don’t take it into account. It is the fact that our homes are filled with sinners!!! And that makes our homes unperfect and everyone within our walls will have bad days. We must train our children to mature to the point that they can rise above these days but just as we mommas have bad days so do our children. Also, our children mimic what they see and hear. So if we cram our days so full or “stuff” with no organization and not enough time to accomplish the daily needs in our home WE are feeding the choas. If children hear constant barking of orders, hurry ups, and frustrated sighs, that is how they will deal with their siblings. Which does not sound peaceful when multiplied by five children.
So, my first step in creating peace has been to creat peace within myself. I have been trying to be more organized so that we are not so stressed and rushed when trying to prepare a meal or clean up the house before Daddy gets home. I want those memories to be peaceful ones of my children and I working together and when you remove the stress of unorganization and bad planning, we can play some music, work together and enjoy it. If I am not organized and have waited until the last minute then I am barking orders faster than the children can move and creating chaos as we all run from one thing to the next with no order.
I have also been focusing on finding joy and contentment no matter what life brings. If I had outdoor plans and wake to a rainy, cloudy day I am striving to be peaceful in that. So instead of an outing to the park we play playdough, bake some cookies, or make some cards.
Will you join me on my journey to creating peace with in my home? Next I will be focusing on words. How do our simple spoken words create peace or chaos?
How do you create peace within your home?
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