Housework and Parenting From a Place of Rest

Beloved, housework can either be done from a place of self-will, to satisfy your natural desire for control and order; or it can be done from a place of Rest, as a joyful act of worship drawing you deeper into My heart. Isn't this a beautiful mystery?

The same goes for parenting. When you ask your children to do something, the same request can come from a human desire to exert control and order, or it can come from a place of Love and Rest. 

When you do housework, or parent, or do anything else from a place of self-will and desire to exert control and order, you are setting yourself up for stress. You are positioning yourself to receive stress. But when you act from a place of Love and Rest, you are setting yourself up for Peace and Joy! You are positioning yourself to receive more of Me! 

When you tidy the lounge room from a desire to exert control, the process is boring, something you want to distract yourself from to get through. Then the minute the kids come back in and mess it up, you become highly stressed. But when you tidy the lounge room while "dancing" with Me, the process itself is an enjoyable act of worship and communion with Me. You can enjoy the few minutes it is in a clean state, but you can also enjoy watching your kids reveling in the tidiness by playing hard! You are then in a much better heart-space from which to guide them from Love to learn to clean up their messes - because it is an important lesson for them to learn, not because you need them to to in order to regain a shred of order and control. 

This is so freeing, Beloved! The flow-on effect is enormously powerful.