Well, if you know anything about me either in real life or from reading this blog then you would know I don't fit that stereotype very well. Until we lived overseas I didn't cook at all. I have no children. My grandma tried to teach me to sew once - we spent years afterward laughing about the experience and my lack of patience for the process. Instead, I thrive in the wilderness. I love travel. I could live as a nomad the rest of my life and care little about even having a place to call home. My comfort level is somewhat unconventional.
If God were to ask me to go to the ends of the earth. I'd say, "how soon can I leave?"
If God were to say leave it all behind. I'd say, "thank you for freeing me (again) of these shackles."
Why? Because I am comfortable on the adventure, living life on the edge with little to hold me down.
Ironically, God is asking me to be a homemaker. Frankly, I am not even sure what that means and the thought of it scares me a little bit. I have been asking people I trust - what makes a home? I honestly don't know.
I assume it begins with having a stable place to call "home." Then filling it with things that make it feel like a "home." But, I am sure it is more than that. This is where I am stuck. What makes a home?
Can you help?
just Sheri, totally out of my comfort zone
We used to say "Home is where the Navy sends us." For me, though, home is wherever the people I love can come together and be themselves, safely.
ReplyDeleteWell friend you know me...I am as unconventional as yourself! I am not at all what most of society would expect me to be at 42! No husband, no children, no pets, a few dead plants on my verandah.......I look up and see a plane fly by and yell out "take me with you I do not care where you are going"....I look up at that same plane and wonder where it is going, who is there, what are they going to see, where I would like to be...I do not need to say anything more cause you know me!
ReplyDeleteBut I also have a home. I have had one for 13 years! And it is nice. It is nice to have a space that is yours so that if you do go overseas you have a place to come back to. It is nice to have a place that you can put yourself into whether that is the furniture or the photos. People often come into my place and say "this is you". It is good to have a place that people can come to and feel like it is a haven. A place to open up to others and help them feel relaxed and at ease. People need a place like that. And when your home becomes one of these places, it is a nice feeling.
You will know what you need to do with your home. I do think a home is more then a building. It is what you put inside it when you are there. And I know your home will become an awesome place for yourself and others to enjoy.
Miss you. xx
Homemaking is really whatever you want it to be. To me, it means concealing the mess, feeding the family, and making sure the kids know who Jesus is. And becoming better friends with my hubby, of course. The stereotype is there for model, but how many of us really want to be a model? I certainly don't. Have fun, make it up as you go, pretend you know better.
ReplyDeleteThere is no real model, because every family is different. As you grow and learn each others likes an dislikes, and as you seek to serve each other, the joy of figuring it all out, I believe is what makes a home, kind of like a church is not the building, but the people loving and working in harmony
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