Making A Home: Decorating for the Glory of God | Ep. 64
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Instagram and Pinterest-worthy spaces may have you feeling intimidated, jealous, or proud about the look and feel of your own home. But despite the trends or the tendency to make appearances too important, there is still value in serving others by creating a beautiful space for God's glory. In this episode, Emily and Laura explain the gospel's implications for beauty in the home, touching on everything from creating a functional space to using decorating for strategic ministry opportunities. Regardless of the size of the space or the size of the budget, mom can image God by drawing her children to His loveliness in all things - even through home decor!
Articles & Resources:
- Social Media, Comparison & Motherhood || Ep. 09
- Freedom to be the Mother God Created You to Be: Why Comparison Doesn't Work || Ep. 18
- Serving Others Right Where You're At || Ep. 43
- Four Questions to Help Determine Your Family's Ministry - RM Blog
- Stay Focused on Your Family's Ministry and Giftings - RM Blog
- The Lifegiving Home - Sally & Sarah Clarkson (Sally really does a good job of communicating how we can love our families and be a reflection of Christ through storytelling, traditions, and beautiful spaces - check out her podcast to hear many examples!)
- The Hidden Art of Homemaking - Edith Schaeffer
- I Owe My Home to Edith Schaeffer - Lauren Brooks
- And for a peak into Emily and Laura's decorating philosophies, check-out some of these posts from their blog archives:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel |
| 0:09.8 | like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel |
| 0:14.9 | to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So, mama, whether |
| 0:20.9 | you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true, |
| 0:25.9 | encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:37.9 | Well, hello, hello and welcome to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Laura Whiffler and I |
| 0:42.4 | have my sister-in-law, Emily Jensen here. Hello. And today, well, first off, we just wanted to |
| 0:48.9 | encourage you guys. If you have not yet, come find us on social media. We are on Facebook, we are |
| 0:53.2 | on Instagram, we are on Twitter, and we're all at Risen Motherhood for all of those platforms, |
| 0:58.9 | and we just do a lot of different things. We share a lot of things, especially around the same |
| 1:05.0 | topic as what that week's show is on. So, we hope you'll find us for more encouragement and just |
| 1:09.8 | to kind of communicate and talk with other women who are pursuing intentional motherhood. It's |
| 1:14.8 | really cool communities, and we're just really thankful for what got us done with them. So, |
| 1:18.7 | we wanted to encourage you to get over there if you haven't yet, and if you're on those platforms. |
| 1:24.0 | But today, we are talking about decorating. We're talking about interior decorating. I don't know, |
| 1:32.6 | like, I don't know how to describe this exactly. We're not talking about the Pinterest Instagram |
| 1:36.9 | decorating, if that's what you think. Yeah, it's always hard and lorna as we were talking through |
| 1:43.1 | this. We're like, how do we describe exactly what we mean? But just kind of the idea of |
| 1:48.9 | as women, as moms, we want to take the environment that we live in, regardless of how big or small |
| 1:56.5 | it is, and just make it a place where those who are in our home feel welcome. Kids, |
| 2:01.9 | husband, people who come to visit, and that can look a lot of different ways, but God has certainly |
| 2:09.2 | used the creator of beauty, and so we want to reflect that. Yeah, exactly. And I think that decorating can |
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