For this Making your home a haven Monday I've decided to do something different.  First of all, I want to encourage everyone to find some closet or area and unclutter it.  I will be uncluttering the living room.  Our dining room table has terrible, no vast, amount of papers at the end where no one sits.  It has become our catchall.  I'm consistently saying "Everything has a place and everything in its place".  However, that table is a mess.  I'll try to post pictures later.  Still working on getting them small enough to fit in the post.

Next, I want to give you a passage out of my new favorite book from www.visionforum.com.  Home-Making by J.R. Miller was originally printed in 1882, but it was a tad modernized in 2004.  This book tells about the biblical view and roles of each member of the family, the running of the household, and having religion in the home.  This passage is from the Home-Life chapter on page 178.

"There is something infinitely more important than the mere recent performance of duties.  There is an unconscious influence that hangs about every life like an atmosphere, which is more important than the words or acts of the life.  There are many parents who fail in no duty, who are deeply anxious for their children, who really strive to make their home what it should be, and whose influence is not a benediction.  When the results of life are all gathered up the deepest and most lasting impressions in our homes and upon our children have not been the things we did with purpose and intention, planning to produce a certain effect, but the things we did when we were not thinking of training or influencing or affecting any other life.  A wise writer says 'I look with wonder on that old time, and ask myself how it is that most of the things I suppose my father and mother built on especially to mould me to a right manhood are forgotten and lost out of my life.  But the things they hardly ever thought of-the shadow of blessing cast by the home, the tender, unspoken love, the sacrifices made and never thought of, it was so natural to make them, ten thousand little things so simple as to attract no notice and yet so sublime as I look back at them,-they fill my heart still and always with tenderness when I remember them and my eyes with tears.'"

In making your home a haven, not only focus on the orderliness and cleanliness (cleanliness is next to Godliness), but also make sure the environment is conducive to growing hearts.

Have a wonderful day!

Blessings,

~Farrah

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Posted by OklahomaSweetPea06

I have that book, I have enjoyed what I have read out of it so far.

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