Everyday tasks around one’s home can feel like they are taking away from time that can be used to serve others. But that’s not actually the case.
In the introduction to Phylicia Masonheimer’s new book, “Every Home a Foundation: Experiencing God Through Your Everyday Routines,” she shares ways that readers can be equipped to use their homes to “love others well.”
After a career and ministry that involved a lot of travel, Masonheimer found herself working from home. She also found that “it was possible to be home a lot — yet not be home at all.”
“My mind was not content there. Each month had one or two speaking engagements or commitments to pull me out of the house — away from my young children, away from the repetitive work of dishes and laundry for the ‘real, important’ work of ministry. I lived in the home; I even loved my home, but ultimately my attitude toward home was one of ingratitude.
“Hi, I’m Phylicia. And I’m a woman hemmed in by home in all the best ways,” she said in the introduction titled “Confessions of an Unlikely Homebody.”
‘Starting on the kitchen floor’
Through 13 chapters divided into two parts — “A Theology of Home” and “A Liturgy of Home” — Masonheimer teaches how to find purpose in a person’s home, and she gives practical tips on ways to use mundane tasks to make a home a place of belonging, connection and service.
“Every Home a Foundation” also includes a bonus chapter with practical advice called “Hosting with Young Children.”
After all, as Masonheimer remarked in the epilogue, “I want to be part of what God is doing in and through my home, and I believe the world will be transformed not by more people on stages but by more people on mission, starting on the kitchen floor.”
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