Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

by Mystie Winckler

A homemaker’s mission is to emulate Jesus, who is preparing a place for us, who has created and called a people for Himself, who wants so much to feast in fellowship with a great multitude of people that He died to take the punishment for their sins and reconcile them to His Father. Heavenly glory is a homemaker’s vision. We work out small foretastes of Jesus’s work for us, presenting them to our family—and anyone else in our home—for their nourishment. As homemakers, our work is a practice, much like a doctor has a practice—work he repeats day in and day out, managing the well-being of the people in his care. If we need more skill in executing our routine tasks well, then it is helpful that they are so repetitive—we always have more opportunity to practice! The only way to get better at something is to do it over and over again, and housekeeping inherently requires us to do the same things over and over again. Instead of seeing this repetitiveness as a drag, we can choose to see it as an opportunity. I can improve because I am going to be practicing.