07/01/2026
Over my life, I have rejected many gifts from the Father. To my great regret.
❤️By the time my faith led me to accept the gift of peace, I had been in the workforce for many years.
❤️My children had mostly grown up in the school system.
❤️After Ryan and I married, we both felt the call for me to come home full time. I was truly NEEDED at home and I had learned years before that no matter how important you believe you are outside the home, you are replaceable in ANY other area than in your home.
❤️We tried for three years to make it work out on paper for me to leave work. All the while, our children got older.
❤️Eventually, Yahweh revealed that He was not asking US to figure out how to make it happen on paper.
❤️He was WAITING on us to make the decision to OBEY Him.
❤️I put in my resignation the next week - without fear but with great anticipation of watching the Lord work it out for us.
And oh how He did! I could tell you story after story of His provision. And His mercy. His grace and His patience.
❤️Since April 1, 2010, my official “retirement date” from working outside the home, we have been CARRIED through many trials - financial, with family, with my health, etc.
❤️And we have watched our Father provide enough at EVERY turn. More than enough on most occasions.
❤️I worked from home on occasion when needed - always on my own schedule where my availability to my husband and family were able to come first. I learned to save money and stock a pantry.
❤️If you feel the call to return to the place that you know in your heart that the Lord has called you, let me encourage you to obey with no abandon.
❤️Seek His wisdom and guidance to open your path to home.
❤️He is not waiting for the world to get better, the numbers to make sense, or any other scenario you may have played out in your mind. He is looking for FAITHFUL servants who understand that He values obedience more than sacrifice. (1 Samuel 15:22)
❤️That He knows who loves Him by seeing who keeps His commandments. (John 14:15)
❤️It will not be easy but ONE day in His courts is better than a THOUSAND elsewhere. (Psalm 84:10)
❤️Don’t be afraid if the Lord reveals to you that your family doesn’t need a large home, new vehicles, hair appointments, nail appointments, Starbucks, expensive extra curricular activities, and fast food. I can promise you that not even one of those worldly things remotely compares to the rest and peace afforded to following the simple life the Lord offers. A peaceful, loving home is a place that everyone wants to be.
❤️I love you with all my heart and I want God’s best for you and the ones you love.
“Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.” Proverbs 14:1
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“Hey, I see you. The woman coming home from work already drained, still carrying the weight of the day, and wondering how you’re supposed to keep living like this.
You walk through the door, but your workday does not really end.
There is dinner to make. Laundry waiting. Dishes stacked. Kids needing attention. Messages to answer. Bills to think about. Tomorrow’s schedule already running through your mind.
And even when the house is quiet, your body is not resting. Your mind is still going.
If this feels familiar, you are not alone.
Many women are living here:
tired before the day even begins
overwhelmed by constant responsibility
mentally carrying work home every night
feeling behind no matter how much they do
trying to be “on” at work and “on” at home without pause
functioning, but not truly resting
emotionally stretched thin and quietly anxious
This is the weight many women are living under today.
And it is worth asking gently: is this what God designed for her?
God did not create women for nonstop depletion.
He created her with wisdom, strength, and the ability to bring life into what she touches. But not to live in a constant cycle of exhaustion, pressure, and pressure again.
Sometimes what we call “normal life” is actually just the weight of the world’s expectations.
Work harder.
Do more.
Earn more.
Keep up.
Don’t slow down.
Be everything everywhere at once.
But that is not the voice of God.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
Jesus does not add more weight. He invites us to lay it down.
There is a picture in Scripture of a woman who builds her home with wisdom.
“The wise woman builds her house.” Proverbs 14:1
The home is not meant to be the place you collapse into after being emptied all day. It is meant to be a place of life, peace, and restoration. A place where your strength is not constantly drained, but gently given and renewed.
This is not about judgment toward women who work. It is about honesty about the weight so many are carrying.
Because many women are not just working... they are working, then carrying a second full shift at home, with no real space to recover.
And over time, that life can feel heavy in a way the heart was never meant to sustain.
There is a different invitation from God.
Not pressure, no shame, no comparison.
But an invitation to consider your life, to notice the weight, and to ask Him honestly what is shaping your days....His voice, or the world’s expectations.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2
For some women, that may mean small changes that bring more peace into the home. For others, it may mean prayerfully considering a different kind of life where home becomes more central again... not as a burden, but as a place of peace.
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.” John 14:27
If you are tired, this is an invitation. To step back., breathe, and bring your life before God again.
And to ask Him what His design looks like for you personally.
He is not asking you to do everything.
He is inviting you into life that is lighter, steadier, and held in His peace.”
Hey, I see you. The woman coming home from work already drained, still carrying the weight of the day, and wondering how you’re supposed to keep living like this.
You walk through the door, but your workday does not really end.
There is dinner to make. Laundry waiting. Dishes stacked. Kids needing attention. Messages to answer. Bills to think about. Tomorrow’s schedule already running through your mind.
And even when the house is quiet, your body is not resting. Your mind is still going.
If this feels familiar, you are not alone.
Many women are living here:
tired before the day even begins
overwhelmed by constant responsibility
mentally carrying work home every night
feeling behind no matter how much they do
trying to be “on” at work and “on” at home without pause
functioning, but not truly resting
emotionally stretched thin and quietly anxious
This is the weight many women are living under today.
And it is worth asking gently: is this what God designed for her?
God did not create women for nonstop depletion.
He created her with wisdom, strength, and the ability to bring life into what she touches. But not to live in a constant cycle of exhaustion, pressure, and pressure again.
Sometimes what we call “normal life” is actually just the weight of the world’s expectations.
Work harder.
Do more.
Earn more.
Keep up.
Don’t slow down.
Be everything everywhere at once.
But that is not the voice of God.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
Jesus does not add more weight. He invites us to lay it down.
There is a picture in Scripture of a woman who builds her home with wisdom.
“The wise woman builds her house.” Proverbs 14:1
The home is not meant to be the place you collapse into after being emptied all day. It is meant to be a place of life, peace, and restoration. A place where your strength is not constantly drained, but gently given and renewed.
This is not about judgment toward women who work. It is about honesty about the weight so many are carrying.
Because many women are not just working... they are working, then carrying a second full shift at home, with no real space to recover.
And over time, that life can feel heavy in a way the heart was never meant to sustain.
There is a different invitation from God.
Not pressure, no shame, no comparison.
But an invitation to consider your life, to notice the weight, and to ask Him honestly what is shaping your days....His voice, or the world’s expectations.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2
For some women, that may mean small changes that bring more peace into the home. For others, it may mean prayerfully considering a different kind of life where home becomes more central again... not as a burden, but as a place of peace.
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.” John 14:27
If you are tired, this is an invitation. To step back., breathe, and bring your life before God again.
And to ask Him what His design looks like for you personally.
He is not asking you to do everything.
He is inviting you into life that is lighter, steadier, and held in His peace.
