Peaceful Home Part 7: Time

A Peaceful Home Schedule

As busy moms, sometimes it can feel as if we are being pulled in every direction at once. We have soccer, little league, church activities, organizations, serving others, and maybe even a full-time or part time job on top of it all. We have meals to prepare, a house to clean, and the hours in the day can seem just too short.

In the midst of all this, there is a fact that we sometimes forget…You control your schedule.

If we are so busy that we don’t make time for Him, or that we are harried and frazzled, and grumpy to our families, then maybe we are too busy.

It’s hard to make our homes havens if we are never there. Even harder if we are grumpy and frazzled when we are there.

Control Your Schedule

Every commitment should be weighed heavily and prayed over. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do anything. It just means that we should be more intentional about it, realizing that every “yes” is also a “no” to something else.

The secret to peace in your schedule is learning to say “no.”

In putting together my Homemaker’s Quiet Time Journal, I ran across this quote from Elisabeth Elliot

“If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.”

Sometimes we need to remove things from our schedules.

Plan & Prepare

Maybe you’ve already whittled down your schedule and there is nothing left but necessary things. Sometimes there really isn’t anything we can remove from the schedule.

I’ve seen many people say that they don’t like to plan because it’s too constricting. I would argue the opposite. Your schedule, routine, or plan is not a restriction. The 24 hours we each get in a day is the restriction.

Having a plan for your day allows you to be more flexible, because you are at the reigns. Don’t let your day happen to you (that’s a good way for me to waste too much time on facebook!). Be actively engaged with your day, and see how much more productive and content you can be, even with a full schedule.

This doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be as simple as sitting down the night before, or first thing in the morning and getting a mental handle on what you have coming up, and making any preparations that could help it run more smoothly.

Continue reading here: Homeschooling: When Things Don't Go As Planned

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