Hi ladies, welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Today I'm going to talk to you about home making and resentment.

Since we are still in the first month of the new year, lots of us are talking about decluttering and reading books on organizing our homes.

It's such a perfect time to turn the page and start fresh and get rid of the bad house making habits and stuffing things in drawers where they don't belong, accumulating junk we don't need, saving things we don't want, etc.

We may have been packing stuff up in bins and boxes to deal with later, but then there they are, bins and boxes clogging up our lives.

Resetments are a lot like this. Someone in your home, whether a husband, child, parent or roommate, persist in not putting the milk back in the refrigerator or leaving their towel on the floor of the bathroom or their dirty dishes in the sink.

And it doesn't matter how many times you ask them nicely, there it is again this morning.

One time I got a call from a very angry wife who was ready to leave her husband.

As I started asking her questions, it came clear that it all boiled down to this. Her husband left his socks on the floor.

And though she had asked him many, many times not to do this, he persisted.

And so every time she saw those socks, she saw written in large letters from her husband, I hate you.

Of course he wasn't saying that, but that's how she was taking it.

Small resentment turned into giant size resentment and bitterness, and that's how it always works.

Every day resentments, whether over big or little offenses, if not quickly dealt with and removed, will just go into a bin that sits in the middle of the living room, and you will just stuff more and more resentment into the bin until another bin is required.

And then the more resentment accumulates, the more things will appear for you to become resentful about.

Your spiritual house will become disheveled, disorganized, and very, very unhappy.

Now I never spoke with her husband about this evil sock habit.

And my point in bringing this up is not to justify his bad sock behavior.

At the same time, really, you're going to leave him over his socks, but this is a good illustration for us on a couple of different levels.

First, let's talk about the resentment itself.

Resetment can feed on the most trivial things.

How are we as Christian women to deal with other people's failings, oversight, and outright neglect of duty?

Well, the biblical answer is, of course, one that we know well.

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