Imperfect Hospitality as a Parent

Focus on Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Keeping the house clean when your kids are growing up can feel like an impossible task. John and Danny bring up how it was a challenge for them when their kids were little. You'll also hear Jim Daly and Courtney Ellis talk about how not having your house perfectly clean is actually good for when company comes over.

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0:00.0	When your children are little keeping the house clean is a full-time chore.
0:07.0	How do you even think about having company over, for instance, when the house is a wreck?
0:12.0	And I have to admit this, Danny.
0:13.8	I used to think my wife, Dina, did not really
0:16.5	have the gift of hospitality because it was so hard
0:19.2	to keep the house clean.
0:21.0	What I realized is she does have that gift. She is a come on in my house is your house, my mess.
0:28.6	Yes, exactly. And so I really appreciate how God helped me shift my mind because it wasn't this is Martha Stewart-esque or this is Pinterest level
0:38.8	Feels good, but yeah. Yeah, I mean it's nice to have a clean house, but I'd rather have healthy kids.
0:43.3	Well, I'm John Fuller, joined by the head of our parenting team here at Focus on the Family,
0:47.9	Dr. Danny, where to.
0:50.0	And Danny, imperfect hospitality is just kind of the thing when you have little kids and the
0:55.8	houses a wreck.
0:56.8	It is.
0:57.8	Hospitality is about being relational, right?
1:00.5	It's not about having a perfect home.
1:02.8	Certainly it's relaxing.
1:04.2	Yeah, yeah, you can feel overwhelmed.
1:05.8	When the house is clean, there is some sort of inner calm that I derive.
1:09.6	Yes, yes.
1:10.6	So I totally get it. And I'll never forget this moment John first first parent first time parent right my son and just been born I was absolutely exhausted Heather had had a real tough delivery so she was exhausted and tired. I had forgot, well we had
1:27.0	forgotten that we had invited these friends over for dinner, they were going to say hi and they were going to see Alex and our house was a
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