"A pleasant home should be full of joy and full of beauty -- the beauty of holiness....Our homes should be pleasant, happy, lovely reflections of the joy we have received in Christ."
I am always striving to make our a home a pleasant and lovely place to be. Not only in how it *looks* but also in the atmosphere. I believe we should keep our homes tidy and well-managed. As wives and mothers I believe this is very important. However, even *more* important is keeping an atmosphere of love, comfort, trust, joy, and grace!
"The pleasant home is gracious. This means it is full of grace. If Christ is not present in our lives, He is not present in our homes...a pleasant home is where our families can laugh together, relax together, work together, eat together in harmony and love."
I highly recommend the book
Praise Her in the Gates by Nancy Wilson! I have read it numerous times and will probably read it again (It is full of highlighting and underlining!)! It is full of great, biblical advice on being a Godly woman, wife and mother!
I am also reading
Her Hand in Marriage by Douglas Wilson (Nancy's husband). I am doing a book study with some sisters in Christ on this book. It is about biblical courtship. :) I own and have read many books by Doug and Nancy Wilson. They are really great reads!
The days have kept me busy. If I don't "have" to do something ~ I find something to do. There are always weeds to pull, grass to mow, gardens to hoe, and a house to clean! :o) Striving to have a pleasant home, for me, includes doing things to make it prettier...even if that just means tidying an area of our lawn that needs it...or adding mulch to areas to dress them up a bit.
Here's a little bit of what I have been doing lately ~
I weeded around all the stepping stones...pulled them all up and then spread bags and bags of mulch...
I'm not finished with this project. I started it last evening and am going to go out and work on it today. You can see I still have extra stepping stones all on my rock wall...
I haven't decided if I want to leave the walkway like this or double the stones up (side by side) to make it easier to walk on...
Chris has still been working on the back porch! The roof is what is being worked on right now. Although that chair isn't there permanently, Chris and I have used it at different times just to take a bit of time and *sit* on our back porch!!! It is just so wonderful!
I have been keeping up with my raised beds (as you saw in my last post) and am excited to see the plants grow daily! (Those boards on the left were the support beams for the posts for the porch. Chris and our Brother-in-Love removed them....and now they are in a pile there. I'm not sure where they are going!)....
Clothes drying out on the line (I don't know *why* it gives me such joy to have clothes hanging out!?)...
A look at the backyard...
The evening sun...
I have been keeping things going inside as well. Here I was washing the dishes...
OK...I gotta run! The morning is getting away from me. I need to have a bit of breakfast and then get to accomplishing my TO DO list! :) I hope you are enjoying your summer days....all to the glory of God! Thank you for stopping by!
Warmly,
Katy :)