#39. Overflowing Home

<p class="">Home is meant to be the central place from which we worship and train up worshipers. It is naturally <a href= "https://www.motherbiblelife.com/articles/lessthanidealchurch">the locus of our maternal responsibilities.</a> It won’t be the only place where responsibility and influence happens, but it is the basic place. We can’t leap over it. This is a bland thought if we’ve not known what it’s like to be in a home full of vitality; if we’re still trying to <a href= "https://www.motherbiblelife.com/articles/whymotherhoodisboring">grow out of our boredom</a>. To say that home is where we are primarily responsible and most influential can be insulting, or at least bewildering, if we have a purely functional view of the home. I’ve written in <a href= "https://www.motherbiblelife.com/articles/its-good-to-be-busy-at-home"> article #11</a> about how the instruction to ‘<em>be busy at home</em>’ is calling us to more, not less, than we imagine. The problem isn’t so much with home, but with its unrealised potential. We underestimate the influence we wield through it.</p>