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I've been doing a lot reading lately that has been helping me point back to the Gospel more in my home. In today's episode, we are going to be chatting about what happens when the Gospel becomes your primary focus.

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Today I want to talk about two books I read this year that have had a great impact on me. The first is In Christ Alone by Sinclair Furgeson. The second is Glory in the Ordinary by Courtney Reissig. 

Finding Glory in the Mundane Moments

You see, I struggle sometimes with finding worth in the mundane. I struggle finding glory in the ordinary. I sometimes struggle knowing how the second load of dishes or sweeping the sidewalk is worth anything. 

Do you ever struggle with this? Do you ever struggle knowing how our work in the home matters to God? Both of these books this year have helped with that. 

I feel like I've gone on a similar journey as the author has in Glory in the Ordinary. I love how she's open about her struggle with this as well:

"Like all major changes, my early days as a stay-at-home mom rocked me to the core. I had gone from days filled with fruitful conversations to days filled with crying and blank stares from two needy babies. Over time I began to see that being home had inherent value, but what I couldn't immediately see was how the work at home had value as well. It was not merely about staying home to take care of the children (which made sense to my exhausted brain); I had to learn there was value in the laundry and cleaning too." - Glory in the Ordinary page 25

This is the impactful part, she goes on to say: 

"What I've learned is that God is glorified in the mundane work as much as he is in the magnificent. In fact, it is in the mundane moments, the moments where we live each and every day, where we come to see the true greatness of God and his love for us." - Glory in the Ordinary page 25

Life is lived out in these tiny moments. I may not always have the mental capacity to remember and realize that I am doing big, grand work, even when I'm scrubbing toilets, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. 

Something that I love throughout her book is this concept of how our culture views work in the home versus how God does. Our culture views work as simply a means to an end. We work just enough to be able to afford leisure time. And we look down on those blue collar jobs or work that seem to have little worth, such as workingMcDonald's.

 

We value big important jobs. We admire people who are in charge of large ministries who are making changes in the world. That's not a bad thing to admire those people, but we tend to put all our value into these jobs or those people. 

So we tend to think then, even if we don't say it out loud, that our work doesn't matter if we are not accomplishing something big. 

And then we apply that to life in the home. When I'm caring for these five souls that God has entrusted to my care, it's easier for me to see the worth. I can glimpse the Gospel-work that I am doing, even if I don't always verbalize it or even remember it. But when I can take a step back, I can more easily see that the work I do with my kids, is big and important. 

But scrubbing the toilets? Cleaning out the garbage can so it stops smelling? Pulling a red crayon out of the dryer which has now stained an entire load of laundry? How are these moments important when they don't seem to a...