Do you have a mountainous pile of paperwork at home that's threatening to topple at any moment?

Here's some advice from Donna Otto.

Hold on now. Grab your seat like you're on an airplane about to take off.

Because what I'm about to say, some of you will go, go home and take the pile straight out and drop it in the trash can.

It's Monday, May 15th, and you're listening to Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Last week, we were inspired to glorify God through our homes.

Our guest, Donna Otto, explained that there's power in a peaceful home. She also gave us some practical advice on creating

a peaceful home. We'll hear from Nancy and from Donna Otto in just a minute. First, as you can

imagine, some of the women listening along in our audience had some questions and comments.

We'll start with mom and pastor's wife, Holly Ellif.

We recently had her home on the market, and I have eight children.

I have six still at home.

So when they would suddenly call and say, we'd like to show your house, they don't always have any concept of what that means to somebody who has a house full of children. And so we got real creative one day and sat down and made a list of places we could hide things when they were suddenly coming to

show our house. And so one of those was the dryer that we realized that we could put all the

dirty dishes inside the clothes dryer because that was something nobody would open. We would also

throw things in laundry baskets and stuff them in the car. Of course, then I couldn't get all the children in the car with the laundry baskets full of the stuff that we didn't have time to pick up. So we found ourselves getting really creative and I'm sorry to say it was not always orderly.

Thank you, Holly. Holly, to say something about what you have learned, though, about finding out what's important

to your husband, which affirms what Donna was saying earlier, because that's helpful

perspective, I think.

I do think it's really critical if you are married to sit down at some point with your

husband, maybe when your house is

decent, so he won't have so many things to put on the list.

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