Have you heard about 31 days to clean?
If you haven’t, you need to drop by 31daystoclean.com and discover for yourself, what is being discussed all over the internet and on blogs and in messageboards about.
Today is the second day of 31 days to clean by Sarah Maes of,”Like a Warm Cup of Coffee“.
For the Mary challenge:
What can you do today to bring life to your home, your children, your husband, and
your sphere of influence?
As I contemplated this question, I looked around the home and thought of ways that this can be done…posting inspiring scripture is one way…be it on a chalkboard, or even getting chalkboard paint to create a surface that this can be done, but it goes beyond that.
For beginners, for me, every morning, what I’m already doing, is opening up the windows to let the natural light in…you’ll be amazed what a huge difference this brings to the home and to the mood.
Second, something to do, be it before the morning starts and the kids are asleep, or while house cleaning and even something a mentor shared with me long ago, and a friend of mine, Hearts4Home, does, is, as we go through the house, in each room, say a prayer.
When in the kids room, say a prayer for each of them, and when in the master bedroom, say a prayer for hubby while he is at work and do so throughout the house.
3 By wisdom a house is built,and by understanding it is established; 4 by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.~ Proverbs 23:3-4 ESV
Finally, filled ones home with scripture as reminder….this can be a simple, low cost method as just printing scripture off the computer.
I know of a mom, in real life, who printed out scripture, simply by using decorative font and then after printing, placing the scriptures in pre-bought, matted frames and hanging them. Though, four years old, there is a site, called, A Clean Heart, that offers free scripture verse posters, that are colorful and perfect for printing and hanging in the home.
The goal, isn’t to make the home a museum ,but a place of comfort.
Exodus 18:18 bookmark
I have been in homes where, everything had a place, filled with knick knacks, spotless clean and magazine perfect, but it was hard to get comfortable and I couldn’t imagine it being a place where hubby could come home, sit on a couch and kick up his feet if he wanted to…it was like a perpetual state of always a guest, but never a place for rest.
Home,is a place for the family to relax, to enjoy, a refuge from the world and if it means, changing up the furniture, posting encouraging words of scripture and just providing a place of refuge…those are ways, I think, I can bring life into the home.
For the Martha challenge:
Vinegar is my favorite tool for cleaning. I know, I know, the smell, but its natural, always available, inexpensive, great for windows and goes a long way. So when it came time to clean the refrigerator and freezer, for me…that was the way to go!
Hope you can come join me over at Conservative Homeschooler-Raising a Generation for Christ homeschool forum, where we are discussing the 31 day challenge and encouraging and supporting each other with prayer and accountabilty. As a little plus too, I created this bookmark to share with everyone!i
To download a copy, for you to print and use, just click on this link, and I ask that if you do download it, to leave me a comment to let me know that you did and also what you think of the bookmark and feel free to pass the word for others to come here to download the bookmark!
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book cover: 31 days to clean by Sarah Maes of ,”Like a Warm Cup of Coffee”
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