Home Work

At the end of the day, everyone goes home.





Home is where we are greeted by loved ones and loads of laundry. It’s where order and chaos collide. It’s sibling rivalries, movie nights, bills, and wondering who on earth thought a sugar glider was a good idea. Home is where we experience love and frustration, joy and disappointment, peace and disruption.





If ever there was a place on earth that desperately needs white space, the home is it!





This is because the home can easily be the place where we turn on autopilot. Work consumes so much of our time and energy that our home gets neglected. We stumble through the rigamarole and mindlessly bump into family relationships like a zombie staggering through the dark. We grow weary and numb while life happens all around us.





This is why white space in the home is so important. It’s able to reach into our stupefied trance and pull us back to the goodness and simple pleasures of life at home. We can take a deep breath and open our eyes to the things we’ve been missing out on. Relationships can be mended. We can be truly present in the home with our family.





The Apostle Paul reminds us of the critical nature surrounding relationships in the home. In his letter to the Ephesian church, he writes a great deal about husbands and wives and children and fathers (parents). He offers encouraging words about these relationships and how they ought to function





Wives honor their husbands.



Husbands sacrificially love their wives.



Children obey their parents.



Parents lovingly guide your children.





As far as family dynamics go, this is certainly not an in-depth teaching. Nor is it without its own interpretational challenges. But, it is a sweet picture of the purposeful way God looks at family and household relationships. He wants our homes to operate in love, grace, kindness, honor, and encouragement. And with the destructive forces of culture bearing down on us, coupled with our own sinful tendencies, we struggle to experience this reality.





This is why we need to exercise the white space principles in our home and instill it within our families!





They can help us become present and engaged. They can direct us toward meaningful time, conversations and relationships. And, they can be shared with everyone in our family. Making our home a haven from the busyness of life.

White Space Moment:

Take a few moments to let what you just read soak in. Now, think about what it would take to introduce white space principles into your home. What steps do you need to take? What might be some barriers? How can you overcome them? Start writing out a plan.

If you find yourself struggling with endless busyness and desperate for a moment to breathe, reflect and maybe JUST MAYBE relax? Get the full book, A Minute To Think, here. To assess where you are at with finding white space in your day,  take The Busyness test today.