Ordering a Peaceful Home
ByA great quote from Elisabeth Elliot on the root of a calm and peaceful home:
The ordering of a peaceful home is not possible without the application of eternal principles. It is, after all, mostly little, common things that make up our life. This is the raw material for the spiritual life. If we despise small things, regard normal household duties as burdens, routines as boring, rules too confining, we will never learn, nor can we teach our children, to live a life of holy harmony. This takes faithfulness in the troublesome details first of all, learning to do them well that we may make then an offering to the Lord, for it is His work, after all, given to us. It is our daily bread for which we should learn to be thankful. Such faithfulness is the groundwork for all God may ever ask us to do.
Elisabeth Elliot in “The Shaping of a Christian Family” page 158
