Home is Holy Ground

Have you ever thought of your home as Holy Ground? I never had until Donna Otta from Modern Homemakers proposed the question..When I think of it two things happen: Inspiration and shame.

1. I get inspired. It makes me want to jump and get going. I want to create more spaces of rest and fun. I want to bring scripture back to the dinner table. It makes me fall in love with my home all over again and reminds me to use it well.

2. And, honestly, it makes me uncomfortable. I think, No, this is the place I want to feel safe to screw up. Safe to be lazy. I immediately feel shame for the way I have snapped at my kids or have let things go. If I don’t see it as a Holy Space then I don’t have to try.

But the latter is no way to live, whether I see my space as Holy or not. I don’t feel I have the right to declare something as Holy or not. But when I stop and think if my home is honoring God it changes things for me. So I go out my front door, I turn around and walk back in. What do I see? Rest or Chaos? Welcome or run away? I will kick off my shoes and pray that I do my best to honor this home, this gift.