Isaiah 28: 9-10 “Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little.”

Isn't it good to know God is all about fresh beginnings.  New every morning-s!  That is my life story.  I would love to be one of those people who get up every morning at the same time, go through a happy routine, and at the end of the day they have accomplished a whole lot.  But then again, that is too dull for me.  As much as I would like to be the happy-homemaker type, meaning to me an always clean and tidy abode, I'm far from it.  I have always got some new project going.  Either I'm cleaning out the garage for the upteenth time or making the closet into a schoolroom or painting and decorating my room, or I'm making yet another plan of how to keep on track.  Sometimes it's a new budget, which amazingly enough I manage to stick reasonably close to, or it's a new list that's going to work, this time, in helping me keep my house clean.  Or maybe it's the new notebook I bought to keep up with prayer request that two pages later is abandoned for the other notebook starting a study of John the Baptist.  I don't think I ever realized how bad I was until my husband brought it to my attention, after which he reasured me that it doesn't bother him in the least.  (After all, he was raised by a homeschool Mom!) 

As I try to cut back, yet again, prune away the things in my life that don't matter, I have to think about what's been consistant.  It always comes back to that.  My God.  My Family.  My Bible Reading.  My Writing.  My Homeschooling.  Is that really it?  Is that all I have been consistant with?  Okay, so there's also the constant de-cluttering projects in an attempt to keep my house from going up in flames!  But is that consistancy, or just mere projects.  I don't know. 

Honestly, I am guilt-ridden over the way my home consistantly looks.  I do great for a month or so, until something comes up (a holiday, retreat, or other things), and then it gets messy and stays that way.  How does a person like me, who thinks it's important to have a tidy home but hates doing the work to keep it there, change?  It's not really a question of how to make a better list!  It's really, How do I get my butt in gear?!!  How do I motivate myself to keep my house clean when it goes past the project stage and into the mundane?  I love the projects, but I hate the mundane (except when it comes to paperwork, which is probably why my budget works--go figure!)  I love to work at something, but I don't like that something to be the same every day!  So how do I keep my house clean--consistantly--when I'm LIKE THAT??

Or do I succumb to the way I am, and just make everything a project?  Project Clean off my Desk, Project Do the Dishes, Project Tackle the mass of Laundry, Project Clean out My Closet...etc.  Puh!!  I'm so frustrated.  Is this about me being lazy or is this a problem of not accepting myself the way God made me and working with it?  I really can't tell.  I always think of myself as lazy, but then complain that I never get to sit down without having to get up a billion times for some 'emergency'.  Am I really that lazy, when I can't sit down long enough to eat??  Probably not. 

I just feel their must be a better way than the way I'm doing things now!  But how????

Isaiah 28: 9-10 “Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little.”

Isn't it good to know God is all about fresh beginnings.  New every morning-s!  That is my life story.  I would love to be one of those people who get up every morning at the same time, go through a happy routine, and at the end of the day they have accomplished a whole lot.  But then again, that is too dull for me.  As much as I would like to be the happy-homemaker type, meaning to me an always clean and tidy abode, I'm far from it.  I have always got some new project going.  Either I'm cleaning out the garage for the upteenth time or making the closet into a schoolroom or painting and decorating my room, or I'm making yet another plan of how to keep on track.  Sometimes it's a new budget, which amazingly enough I manage to stick reasonably close to, or it's a new list that's going to work, this time, in helping me keep my house clean.  Or maybe it's the new notebook I bought to keep up with prayer request that two pages later is abandoned for the other notebook starting a study of John the Baptist.  I don't think I ever realized how bad I was until my husband brought it to my attention, after which he reasured me that it doesn't bother him in the least.  (After all, he was raised by a homeschool Mom!) 

As I try to cut back, yet again, prune away the things in my life that don't matter, I have to think about what's been consistant.  It always comes back to that.  My God.  My Family.  My Bible Reading.  My Writing.  My Homeschooling.  Is that really it?  Is that all I have been consistant with?  Okay, so there's also the constant de-cluttering projects in an attempt to keep my house from going up in flames!  But is that consistancy, or just mere projects.  I don't know. 

Honestly, I am guilt-ridden over the way my home consistantly looks.  I do great for a month or so, until something comes up (a holiday, retreat, or other things), and then it gets messy and stays that way.  How does a person like me, who thinks it's important to have a tidy home but hates doing the work to keep it there, change?  It's not really a question of how to make a better list!  It's really, How do I get my butt in gear?!!  How do I motivate myself to keep my house clean when it goes past the project stage and into the mundane?  I love the projects, but I hate the mundane (except when it comes to paperwork, which is probably why my budget works--go figure!)  I love to work at something, but I don't like that something to be the same every day!  So how do I keep my house clean--consistantly--when I'm LIKE THAT??

Or do I succumb to the way I am, and just make everything a project?  Project Clean off my Desk, Project Do the Dishes, Project Tackle the mass of Laundry, Project Clean out My Closet...etc.  Puh!!  I'm so frustrated.  Is this about me being lazy or is this a problem of not accepting myself the way God made me and working with it?  I really can't tell.  I always think of myself as lazy, but then complain that I never get to sit down without having to get up a billion times for some 'emergency'.  Am I really that lazy, when I can't sit down long enough to eat??  Probably not. 

I just feel their must be a better way than the way I'm doing things now!  But how????