Reset the Tone of Your Home

When you walk into your home, how do you feel? You should feel good. Listen, the tone of your home sets a tone for your life. Let's talk about rhythms and all the resets we need at the house. Listen, the Bible says in Proverbs 31:27, "She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness." Your house matters. How you feel when you walk in the door, it Matters. And so we have to be proactive. I want to be proactive about creating a home that not only my people enjoy, but I enjoy too. So there are rhythms and habits that I have had in my home over the years that have made that possible in the various seasons where my kids have been young, or now they're almost all the way out of the house. And so it's more adultish in the land. And every time the seasons change in my life with my health or my work or my relationship with my husband, the tone of my home as it is set out with rhythms and, and all of our routines, those shift too. If you're not paying attention to what you're doing in your home on a regular basis to create an experience, then you are sleeping on how good home can be. I want you to think about the home environment that you want to create because you do have to create it. It doesn't happen by osmosis. And I want you to think about also what has been getting in the way. Many of us have a vision of what we'd like home to be, but we don't have money to decorate it the way we want to decorate it. Or maybe we don't have the time to keep it clean and neat and nice and maybe a little minimalistic. Or maybe we don't have the creative juice and we're like, somebody else's home looks wonderful. And I like looking at homes on Pinterest, but I don't know what to do in my own. Whatever your excuse is or whatever's getting in the way, I want you to know that you should pay attention and look at the things that you do to make your home your own. Abode, experience, vacation, sabbatical, to make it your own heaven because you spend so much of your time, or you should spend time in your own home, enjoying the place that you have control over what it looks like. And if you live with someone else, listen, I'm still saying the same thing because even if you are a 25-year-old living at home with your parents, you got a room, don't you? So wherever your abode is, the rhythms and the routines that you have can set the tone and the tone of where you start your day. From every day. It truly matters. So I wanted to talk to you about some practical ways you can reset the tone of your home, especially as we go into the fall season. Because if your starting place, if your home base, if your foundation feels good, then what you're able to achieve, how you feel, what you're able to do, how you're able to make an impact, it will be multiplied based on the blessing that your home is to you. So the first thing that I wanna tell you is that the tone of your home has to be created intentionally. It's not gonna happen by accident. So instead of thinking about your home as a default thing, think about the tone of your home as something you can design so that it's not actually default at all. There was a season where, and currently, if I'm honest, uh, there are pieces of this season where my house feels frantic. And right now it's because I've got kids in and out. Um, when I'm traveling in and out, the rhythms of my home just aren't there. And when kids who have not been at home come home and they don't do laundry at a designated time, they just do it whenever, and it's like a railroad road accident in the laundry room because people are coming and going and whose socks are these? Or we don't know who's supposed to do the dishes and so nobody wants to do the dishes. And so the next morning I wake up to a sink full of dirty dishes. That ain't cool. Or no, we don't eat in here and y'all forgot cause y'all weren't here. And so you left the wrapper or the container or the cup. Those things make my life feel frantic. And so I have to be intentional about establishing or reestablishing guidelines that fit my family now.. And the ones that fit me or fit my husband or fit my family then 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, or even 3 years ago are different than what they are now. And that's where intentionality comes in because I have to look at what makes me feel unsettled, what makes me feel disgruntled or disheveled, and then say, what would fix that? What would fix that? So whether it's who's fixing dinner at dinnertime, who's doing the dishes, who, who's doing laundry when it's always. Uncomfortable when there is no rhythm. Rhythm is the savior of your life. You don't have to be a Type A person to have rhythm, uh, because I'm not talking about a schedule. I'm talking about rhythms. You don't have to be super anal or perfectionistic to have rhythms, and you already have rhythms, whether you realize it or not. If you walk in your bedroom and every day you take off your clothes and there is a train of clothing from the door of your bedroom to your bed, you have a rhythm. If you leave out all of your makeup and all of your facial products on your bathroom counter, you have a rhythm. If you go to the store whenever you need food, uh, and you're figuring out at 5:00 PM what you're gonna eat for dinner tonight, that is your rhythm. If those things stress you out or don't work for you, then you just change your rhythm and find a rhythm that serves you. So that's where intentionality comes in. You have to first figure out what is irritating the mess outta you. And then you say, if it were this way or that way or a different way, how would that make me feel less stressed? You figure out what you don't have so you can identify what you do need, and then you start building those rhythms accordingly. I just want to acknowledge, first of all, that rhythms do change and that things that you cannot control affect your rhythm. For example, if you get ill, that's going to affect your rhythm. If you move, you don't know your new house or your new apartment from your old house and your old apartment. You've got to work in new rhythms in a new place. Holidays, and those are going to be coming up sooner than we can, you know, say holidays, those disrupt our rhythm. That's why for many of us, even if we enjoy them, there's some stress that comes with them because we no longer have our rhythms. And if you have the changing of people in your life, like you get married or a child leaves, or you, um, have visitors or you have guests, or maybe you are hosting something in your home. Listen, every first Sunday when my family would get together for first Sunday, y'all, I live and work at my kitchen table. So there's always a pile there. Now I know what's in my pile, so I'm not apologizing for my piles, but I don't necessarily want everybody who comes over to my house for Sunday dinner to have to navigate my piles, my personal business, or make judgments on me because there is a pile at my kitchen table. So you know what I do when they come over? I pick up the pile and I move it. I move it to my bedroom. Guess what happens if between the first Sunday in month 1 and the first Sunday in month 2, I don't clean up that pile? I build another pile out at my kitchen table and then I move that one into my bedroom. And guess what happens if I do that 3 months in a row? I have 3 piles. I don't know what's in those piles. I know something important is in them or else they wouldn't have been piles. But because the pile is my rhythm, if I don't have a rhythm of putting it away and then cleaning it up, I just pile up and then that's stressful. And then I have all these piles in my bedroom. So even my, the thing I love entertaining my family on first Sundays, if I don't have a rhythm for how I prepare and how I unwind from that, stress can build behind it. So no judgment. Remember, we listen and we don't judge. Whatever got you into a place where there is something to address, that is simply the signal to teach you that you need rhythms and routines that help you to live at peace with yourself. I have said once, so I quote myself, you can't control everything that enters your home, but you can control the atmosphere you create. Y'all, paper is a thing. It enters, but you can control the atmosphere by putting it in the, in the recycle bucket or basket or trash can or whatever you have. You can't control the fact that clothes get dirty. I mean, you can, but you can't cuz you're alive and You know, we get dirty, but you can decide with what rhythm the clothes are washed and put away. You can't always control the fact that your kids are gonna be, uh, outside and then they're gonna be changing a couple of times because right now I have a son who works out every evening. So he sweats in the morning when he goes to the gym and then he sweats in the evening when he does his own workout. So he is tripling, doubling and tripling the amount of clothes that are coming through my laundry room. But what we can do is have a rhythm that serves us. I can't control the fact that I have people up and down and in and out in my home that are eating. And this week I'm cooking for two. And next week I'm cooking for 5. But what I can do is meal plan and then have a plan for leftovers should we have more than what we can eat. You can have rhythms and routines that serve you. If you are intentional about looking at your life and figuring out where the irritation or frustration is coming from, then you can be just as intentional about looking at your life and figuring out how to solve that with rhythms that work for you. In Genesis 1, God established order, order before he created abundance. There's a whole message here. Okay? Chaos was present, but God spoke rhythms into the world. The sun rising and the sun setting, day, night, separation between sea and land, work and rest. God said, there's chaos. In order for there to be something that grows here, there have to be rhythms that work. And if God had to do that in order for things to grow and in order for there to be abundance and beauty, what makes you think you're any different? If you want abundance and beauty in your life, if you want things to grow, things to be beautiful and welcoming and peaceful, Guess what you need? Boundaries, separation, and rhythms. Your home, in order to be a sanctuary, needs to have structure. Nothing will grow and be beautiful in your life if you don't have a setup. So if you are clueless as to where to begin with the setup that you need, let me give you a practical tip. Start with prayer. Ask God, listen, if he took care to set the world up right, what makes you think he's not interested in setting your world up right? Ask God. Prayer is just communication with God. It doesn't have to be super spiritual. It's like, I am actually stressed. God, what can I do in my home that would bring a sense of order and peace? And sit there and listen and see what happens. Yes, get inspired by DIY TV and yes, get inspired by looking at Pinterest, but don't get stressed out. Start with God and say, what would be the one thing? Holy Spirit, show me and teach me that would bring me a whoo-sa moment so I can live and be refreshed in the place I call home. So take 10 minutes to observe what feels off in your home. And then whether it's mornings, mealtimes, bedtime, laundry, paper, bills, whatever. And then ask, what is one simple rhythm that will allow me to reset and begin a routine that brings me peace? You can reset your life with rhythms and routines, not Type A, not perfectionistic, but rhythms that serve you so that you have less to think about, less to spend energy on, and to do more of what serves you in the place you call home. Imagine your home is like a thermostat and the temperature that you have, it's not just for you to read it, it is for you to feel it. And you feel the peace or pressure that your home gives you. The second thing is you want to have rhythms that create peace and not perfection. I keep saying perfection because I need to double down on this. We get stressed out trying to have one weekend where we clean out all the closets or we watch some videos and then decide we're going to be minimalistic and change our whole thing in one day. It don't work like that. We build rhythm slowly and the peace comes in slowly, but it also is maintainable. If you go in and blow your house up with all the new systems and containers and rhythms and chore charts and all the things, you probably can't maintain it because it's not just about building the rhythm and routine. It's about building the you who engages in the rhythm and routine and changing your habits and rewiring those neuropathways. That takes some time, and it's okay to give yourself the grace you need in order to do that. One of the best things about the summer is it gives you plenty of time to get ready and prepare for the fall. What's coming in the fall, you might ask? Well, I'm so glad you asked. The Sister Circle Live, October 17th and 18th. It's an opportunity to gather with me in Dallas and some of my friends for great teaching, great conversations, great worship, and great engagement to help you grow. It's never too late to get ready for the fall this summer, and it's never too early this fall to get ready for the year to come. We use this event to help you make your mark this year and to get ready for living abundantly in the year to come. So come on to Dallas if you're not already here. Spend a weekend with me. I'd love to teach you, share my friends who have great knowledge with you, and empower you to get ready to launch into the year to come with great, amazing possibilities in front of you. That's what the Sister Circle Live is all about, y'all. We truly are better together. Rhythms aren't just about getting everything right. Rhythms are about giving everything a rightful place. And you are one of those things. You as an individual, as a person, as a living, breathing mechanism, you operate on rhythms and your rightful place is more important than the things you need to put in a container. So while we're not shooting for perfection, we are shooting for processes that serve you. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14:33, God is not a God of disorder, but of peace. So even in a noisy, imperfect world, God built in rhythms like the Sabbath rest. Do you take a Sabbath? Do you take a nap on Sundays? Do you rest one day a week and shut everything down? If not, you should. Seasons of harvest, everything does not grow at every time. And then there are moments where we need pause. One of those most important moments of pause is when you sleep every night. Rest is not about God, it's about you. And so when you refuse to build in rhythms, when you don't make the time and the space to develop new rhythms or routine, when you refuse to rest, you are actually cheating yourself out of a gift God wanted to give you. Now, I, y'all, am perfectionistic, 100%. Like, I'm a spreadsheet working, list maker, grade A making kid. Oldest achiever, all the things you think I am, I am. But I will say when I had kids at home and they were young and I was homeschooling and I was trying to figure out how to nurse a baby and do an algebra problem with my teenager, I learned from, um, a lot of books, a lot of websites, and I just devoured everything I could on developing rhythms and routines that would help me not lose my mind. First of all, if you are a mom of small children at home, there are seasons where you will feel like you are losing your mind. And as soon as you figure out what the rhythm and the routine is for this season in your You're like, oh my gosh, this worked. Everybody fell asleep at the same time. That's gonna last you 6 to 8 weeks, maybe 12. And then they're gonna change cuz they're growing. Guess who else is growing and living and breathing and moving and changing? You, you are growing through every year and every decade of your life. What you need will change and that's okay. So don't just pay attention to your babies and give yourself grace in those seasons, pay attention to you. Instead of rhythms and routines making me feel trapped, y'all, I learned how to love them. Not to have a schedule, because I tried to do that at first, and then I had to release the schedule and I had to embrace rhythms of the day. So here are some examples of that. Even today, on Mondays, I try my best not to leave my home. I try my best to work from home. I try to stay in my home as much as possible at that kitchen table. On Tuesdays, uh, I try to run errands, and that's the day where I go out and have many any of my meetings. And if I have to run errands, I do them while I'm going to and from meetings. Wednesdays is the day that I plan out, um, so many of the things that are for me. So doctor's appointments or going to get my nails and toes done or going out with my husband for lunch. I don't always have fun and foo-foo on Wednesdays, but if I'm gonna do it, that's the day. It's a rotating day that I try to leave with space because I do a lot of things on Sunday and Sunday sometimes feels like a workday because I'm very involved with my church. So Wednesdays is like another added Wusa day that I've added to my schedule. Thursdays, I meal plan. Fridays, we have family time. Saturdays, there's always something going on, and I try my best on Sundays to chill out. That is the general rhythm of my days. But then each day I have rhythms in the day. I try to have breakfast before a certain time. I try to make sure I've eaten by a certain time, but not exact, not like by 12, but like, you know, 11 to 1-ish. But what is a rhythm is that if I'm going to work out, that happens before I fix breakfast for my kids and before I start work. I've I see my kids off into their day, and then I have work and I try to separate, uh, and work quietly and do deep work before I engage with my team. There is a rhythm to the day. I start laundry on my day. My son starts laundry on his day. My husband, he forgets what his day is and we give him grace, but he does have a day. We rotate who's making dinner and we rotate who's doing the dishes. These rhythms give me space to breathe and it makes my family not feel henpecked because everybody knows what to expect. I mean, listen, y'all, I may have made the same thing on Mondays, for 20 years. I mean, it doesn't mean I can't change it, but everybody in my house knows Mondays is for oatmeal. What does that mean? That means I don't have to think Sunday night or early Monday morning, what's for breakfast? We already know. It means when I'm running low on oatmeal, it gets added to the list to the grocery store because I don't have to decide what we're eating to know that I do or do not need oatmeal. So there are rhythms that work for my There are rhythms that work for my spiritual development. I do devotions and short deep dives in the morning, and I go deep, deep for study in the evenings because in the morning my kids were always interrupting me and coming in and saying, "Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom." So I stopped trying to do deep things in the morning. And when they go to bed at night, or my teenagers don't wanna have anything to do with me, that's when I have time to go deep. You have to look at the rhythm of your life and say, when do I have time to cook? Are you a Sunday meal prepper? Are you a cook every day during the week? When are you gonna work out? When do you study? When do you go into your word? Or when do you study for school? What works for you? When do you and your husband have a date night? When do you and your kids play games? When do you, um, go out with your friends? Is it once a month, always on this Saturday? You invite a friend, like be spontaneous, but have some rhythm so that some of the things that stress you out, you don't have to think about. I do that with meals. I do that with the rhythms of my home. It makes or breaks my week. When my children were small, y'all, we used to go to the library and they knew Tuesday was library day, cuz that was also an errand day. And once a week, I never had to worry about books being overdue because every week on Tuesday we went. What can you do to take some of the thinking out of your life so that the tone of your home is smooth and saturated with ease? David Campbell says, discipline is remembering what you want. And then I will add, doing consistently what it takes to get it. Some of y'all I know are watching or listening to this and you're thinking, Chrystal Hurst, but all that rhythm and routine stuff that works for you. Well, I just want to say that we admire people that have discipline in their lives and we admire what people are able to do over time when they do the same thing consistently. The only reason why you should do anything is because it serves God's purposes for you, or it serves your purposes for yourself. Discipline, all it is, is being consistent about what serves God or what serves you and doing it consistently. Because you want it. Why do we go to the gym consistently? Because we want to be healthy. Why do we cook at home? Because we want to be healthy or we want to save money. Why do we go on a regular date with our husband? Because we want to actually like our husband when the kids leave. Why do you go out with your friends regularly and say, girl, we haven't met in a while, let's meet for coffee or lunch or dinner or breakfast or whatever? Some of my friends know they got to meet me at 5:00 AM in the morning if they want to meet me, because that's when I always have time. If they want it to be easy, why do I want to do that? Because I don't want to realize, wake up one day that I took care of my kids and took care of my husband and then had no friends. Why do you do anything that you do? Because you want it. So discipline is simply the decision to do something for what you want, but to do that something consistently. So you can start small. You can create anchor rhythms like a morning quiet time or weekly planning or your Sunday reset. You can decide when you work out or when you drink water. Super helpful. Every morning I get up and grab a cup cup or a Mason jar or a water bottle from somewhere, and I put water in it and lemon because it's a part of my routine. Guess what? I easily have gotten in, by the time I finish this, 3 glasses of water. Easy peasy. But it's a rhythm. Create starting and stop points for your day. It's important if you're a work-at-home mom especially, you gotta decide when you turn off work. I'm horrible at that. I'm currently working on that now. So you wanna identify your daily anchors. And then make sure that you instill them one at a time. Why? Because we're not going for perfection. We're going for progress in the rhythms that serve you. Okay? The third thing is you want to have systems that sustain what your intentions start. We're going to get going because we're going to be motivated. We're going to be excited. We're going to make a decision. We're going to join a gym. We're going to start meeting with friends for working out or maybe for coffee. We're going to mad dash clean our closet. Great. But what is the system that will serve you so that you continue to do what you started in motion? You can have a desire for a peaceful home, but if you don't have systems, even good intentions will fail you. Systems are simply— they're not anal. They're about having containers for the actions that will help you maintain, improve, or sustain the atmosphere that makes you feel good about your home. Okay? Proverbs 14:1, a wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands, the foolish one tears it down. I talk a lot about train tracks. Systems and routines are simply train tracks that you lay so that the train of your life can run on them. There are certain things that shouldn't be hard, but if you put a train on grass or train in sand or train in mud, the trip will be hard. Tracks ensure that no matter what the terrain is, the train can run. That's what systems do. So if you have a rainy day, the systems run. If you have a sad day, the systems can run. If you have a joyful day, the systems can run and they serve you. Building takes structure and systems provide that. So whether you're single or married, whether you're a mom, whether you're not, systems help you steward what God has placed in your hands. And the best and most important thing that you can steward by having systems One of the biggest time savers in my life is I don't go to the store, but once a week, y'all, every Sunday I go to Costco. And then if I need anything else, I go there after Costco or I order groceries. You know what that saves me from? All of the little 30, 45-minute trips that I would have running in and out of the store all week long. Week long. My time is too precious for that. And the system of meal planning and shopping accordingly not only helps me save money, but it helps me save time. If you know that you shouldn't be whittling away your life on social media, you shouldn't be whittling away your life at the grocery store. And a system like meal planning can help with that. So here are other ideas for systems. Having a regular family meeting, maybe it's every Sunday or Monday night where y'all talk about the week and everybody knows who's going and who's coming. Why? So that you are not crisscrossing. I hate it when my husband goes to Costco and I'm like, go to Costco, yes, but ask me, Chrystal, is there anything that you need from Costco? Because that system will save me from going to the store. Sometimes it takes a minute for your family to adapt your systems. It will diffuse frustration if you have systems. Laundry days, shared chores, cooking and cleaning, those are all systems. Maybe you need a command center. Where does the mail go when it comes in the door? Where do important papers go? Maybe you need a routine checklist for you or for your kids. I have a whiteboard in my house right now, and as I think of things that need to be done, I list them and I put who I think should do them. And as they do them, they check them off. Easy communication. I don't have to nag them, and they don't have to wonder or remember what I said. So whether it's a list of to-dos by your phone in your kitchen, or maybe if you got a landline, because I know the landlines are making a comeback— I'm a Gen Xer, they should have never left— I still have mine. Or if it's a whiteboard, uh, maybe it is a clipboard. For the longest, I put my kids' chores on paper and then put them on clipboard and hung the clipboard in a closet. Maybe it is a chore chart. My, my daughter right now is using something called Skylight. It's the digital version of your chore chart for your kids. Do what works for you, but make sure everybody is clear on what's expected. Maybe it's a weekly home reset. Maybe you blast the Christian music, the gospel music, like my mother used to do, and everybody cleans until it's all done. You know, we do what we have to do. It's the laundry, it's the bills, it's the tidying. Maybe you do a 2-week rotation or a monthly rotation on your meals. And so every month it just repeats. So you don't have to work so hard to think about what's for dinner. I do, uh, believe in meal planning being one of the biggest time savers that will help your whole life. So here's a tip for you. Have a Sunday reset, have a day where everybody's decluttering a space and you do that for 30 minutes or 15 minutes or an hour. Develop a system that works for you and works for your family and then post it so everyone can see it. James Clear of Atomic Habits said, you don't rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. A home is like a garden. And if you don't create a system for watering and gardening, your plants are going to die. Let me tell you why I know this, because I keep trying to be a gardener. I keep trying to have plants, but because it's not a part of my system to water them, I look at them like, oh shoot, you dying. Let me water you. It's the most inconsistent watering system ever. I need to just put a reminder on my list of things to do every Monday and just water the plants. My son has to refresh the bathrooms midweek, every week on a Wednesday, change out the towels and scrub the toilet. Another one of my sons has to do, uh, laundry, not just for him, but all of the kitchen towels. It's a part of our rhythm and routine so that I don't have to go to the bathroom and realize that towel is nasty, or so that I don't open the kitchen drawer and realize I have no kitchen towels. Things that you put on rhythm, they don't die as easy, like my plants. Okay? Okay. I understand that life is busy. And I understand that sometimes the idea of rhythms and routines can be overwhelming. But I really do believe that if you want to reset the tone of your home, that you're going to have to be intentional about it, that you are going to have to have some things that are just on automatic and automatic the way you want them to be automatic. That maybe for one week you say, no matter what, I'm going to walk in my bedroom and I'm going to hang up my clothes. And then you do that for a second week. And a third, and then before you know it, it's a habit and your closet is organized. If just one week you decide, I'm going to sit down and meal plan, and then you do that 4 weeks in a row, guess what you have now? 30 days of meals that are planned that you have grocery store lists for. So the next time it's not so hard. You should check out Plan to Eat because that's what I use to organize all of my meal planning and it serves me so well. You should try it out. I think it's chrystalevanshurst.com/plantoeat if you want to learn more. The little rhythms that you have in your life and in your house, oh my My goodness, they will save you so much time. I don't want you to just live in a home that you are glad to leave every day, or you just get in the bed with all the clothes piled up on your bed because you just never figured out after you washed them and dried them when you were going to fold them. I want you to have rhythm so that when you get into your bed in your house, you feel like you are giving yourself the gift of a beautiful, upscale, 5-star hotel room. Every night when I get in my bed, it's one of the gifts I've given myself. I literally get under my covers and say, Ooh, because my bed is where I want to be and it's made and I pull back the covers and it feels like this is home. I love that in my bed. I need that in other areas of my house. And I want you to have that in your home too. When you walk through the door, your home rises up to meet you. Every night when I go to bed, I run a diffuser. When I get up in the morning, my house smells glorious. When I'm getting ready for bed in the evening, I burn a candle and turn on music. And as I'm getting in my bed and as I blow the candle out, the music lulls me to sleep. Listen, I believe that your home can be the bedrest, the foundation, and the place where your creativity rises and your rest rises and your joy rises, even if the other people live there. But guess what's going to have to happen in order for that to occur? You're going to have to create and lean into rhythms that serve you and serve you well. If you are thinking right now, listen, Chrystal Hurst, I don't even know where to start. Well, start by Okay, here it is, creating digital boundaries, because I can guarantee you your home probably is a reflection of how much time or how much time you're not focusing on home because you are focusing on screens. Immediately setting digital boundaries will give you time back to create the atmosphere that you want. The other thing that is super important, speak peace, speak peace, because the first person that hears what you say will be you. Okay? It'll be you. And when you speak peace, and you pursue peace with your actions and your rhythms and routines, your home will rise up to meet what you think your home should be because you've been listening to you. And the power of life and death is, y'all, in the tongue. You don't need a perfect home. You need a peaceful home. And peace isn't the absence of noise because you live, you're living, you are living, active, breathing soul. However, it can be the absence of a lack of order if you don't have the rhythms and routines that serve you. So the goal is peace, resetting the tone of your home in the rhythms of cleaning and cooking and, and, and opening mail and paying bills and, uh, folding the towels and enjoying family night with your, your kids and your husband and inviting your friends over. All of these things are a part of the peace that you seek, and the rhythms and routines will serve you in bringing them. Because when you get up in the morning, you should be glad that that's your launching pad. And when you go to sleep at night, you ought to feel lulled to sleep by the beauty of your home that meets you when you walk in the door. This can be the case. Right now, there are some areas of my home, y'all, that rise to meet me like my bed when I go to sleep every night. And then there are other rooms that make me want to pull my hair out. Guess what my road to intentionality in my home is? Rhythms. And if that's working for me, here's what I know: it can work for you. Isaiah 32:18 says, my people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes and in undisturbed places of rest. That is not just something that applies for me. That applies not just for the people of Israel. It applies for you too. But what do you have to do to make that a reality? Engage rhythm, routine, structure, ease into things that serve you so that your home gives you what you need to launch every day and retire every night in peace. I hope this has been helpful. And you know what, I'm going to pray for you. Lord Jesus, I just pray that for every woman who's listening to this, watching this, that you would show her the one little step that she can take, the move she could make to setting a tone in her home for herself, for her spouse, for her roommate, for her children, for her parent or her auntie and them, or her sister who lives with her, the nieces and nephews. Wherever home is, would you allow us to be the women who bring peace because we put our hands to the plow and we make our home a beautiful, restful, peaceful dwelling place. And let us yield our disciplines and our existing habits to the rhythms and routines that actually will serve us. The whole point of home, so that we launch to do your will. Help us to create a space that invigorates us and infuses us with joy and peace and excitement about whatever you call us to do every day. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. So here's the question I wanna ask you. You? What is the tone of your home? And after listening or watching today's episode, what do you feel like you could do? One small thing to begin to set the tone of your home so that your home serves you. All right, y'all, can't wait to read your comments and we'll see you next week. Thanks for tuning into the Sister Circle Podcast. If that content blessed you even a little bit, you're gonna love what's coming next. Don't