Being a stay at home Christian mom is a great blessing, and these tips will help you enjoy it and find success for your family.
I love being a stay at home Christian mom
Being a stay at home Christian mom is SUCH a great blessing. But we live in such a busy, distracting, technology-filled world that it can be hard to understand what “success” really looks like… let alone, how to get there.
So today, I want to share all the details of my morning routine – which sets up my day for success.
These are the activities that help me put Jesus first, stay present with my kids, get the housework done, and ENJOY my time with my family.
It’s not a checklist to follow and it’s not a magic wand to solve every problem. But being intentional about how you start your day is a key part of deepening family relationships and enjoying family life.
Ready? Let’s jump in!
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Success as a Christian mom
Our true understanding of success has nothing to do with where we spend our days, at home or at work or anywhere in between.
For every Christian mom, success means that day by day, you are showing your family the love of Christ.
That might sound simple – but it’s actually really hard!
Showing kindness, patience, and compassion. Seeking unity with your spouse. Pursuing healthy biblical submission. Diligently teaching your kids, disciplining them, and discipling them in the faith. Christian motherhood is a lot of work.
And when you’re doing that while staying home all day, there are definitely some extra distractions, opportunities, responsibilities, and struggles along the way!
What about when you’re a stay at home Christian mom?
When you’re home all day with your kids, success gets even harder. The ultimate goal is still the same – showing your family the love of Christ.
But now, you have to do it all day. Every day. No breaks. It can be a lot harder to stay patient, handle discipline, and show up joyfully every day when you can start to feel like you’re stuck at home, or when your family relationships are struggling.
As a stay at home Christian mom, there’s also a big focus on the home. Guess what? It gets messier when people use it all day! The cleaning, cooking, organizing is even more intense – plus, you have to balance it with supervision, play, activities, and plenty more.
Thankfully, there are some helpful secrets to achieving SUCCESS as a stay at home Christian mom.
My favorite secrets to success as a stay at home Christian mom
As you’re trying to care for your home, balance everything, and stand strong in showing your family the love of Christ, these 5 tips will help.
1. Expect to make sacrifices - without your family’s gratitude.
Should you work with your kids on being thankful and helping with household chores? Of course! But if you’re counting on that, it will be a lot harder to remain patient, slow to anger, and joyful.
The Christian life is all about sacrifice (see 1 John 3:16!) and you are loving your family for the glory of God, not for their thanks and appreciation.
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2. “Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Your own heart, your own emotional control, must be a top priority if you want to be successful as a stay at home Christian mom! Yes, you’ll need to make sacrifices for your family. But if your emotions are out of control in the meantime, your home will lack the joy and peace you long for.
Prayer will help. Start by praying through Proverbs, asking for the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), and seeking God’s help to be like the Christian household in Colossians 3.
3. Use a trial-and-error approach to chores and housework.
As a stay at home Christian mom, your definition of success won’t change, but the seasons of life will. Clothing, feeding, and showing hospitality to your family and others will look different with little toddlers than it will with teens. (Consider Matthew 25:34-40 for inspiration and prayer.)
If you’re holding too tightly to the current routine or the perfect chore chart, it will be hard to be successful. The Bible repeatedly tells us that Christians will care for others, and you have a front and center role in caring for God’s beloved right in your own home.
4. Notice and spotlight gospel moments around your home.
Every single moment you have as a stay at home Christian mom is planned by God and is for his glory. You will help your kids learn habits of gratitude, evangelism, confession, and other parts of spiritual life by showing them how to do it in the real world – your own home. But more importantly, you will be shaped by what you pay attention to.
Consider Romans 12:2 and letting God transform your mind instead of the patterns of the world. Pray through Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and how to share the gospel with your kids. Every moment is a teaching moment, and if you have eyes to see it, every moment has glimmers of God’s goodness.
5. Be interruptible - Do what God calls you to do, even if it isn’t on your plan for the day.
Sometimes, we think as stay at home Christian moms that we can control our days. We can control the food, the routine, and get everything done. But of course, this is not reality! You will enjoy family life far more if you live out Proverbs 16:3 – “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.”
Kids will interrupt you. Broken dishwashers will interrupt you. Spilled milk, crayons on the wall, a teenage breakup – you cannot plan for when these things will happen, but you can expect that they will eventually happen.
When people or problems interrupt your day, see it as a calling from God to grow in showing the love of Christ to your family. He is patient, long-suffering, always kind, forever faithful.
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