For a year now, Elisha and I have been taking a 24 hour Sabbath. We are completely done with work and take a complete rest from the internet and housework. One of the most popular questions I’ve gotten since implementing the Sabbath is, “How do you rest when you have dishes to do, children to take care of, a house to clean and meals to make. If you do take the rest, don’t you have a war zone when you come back from it?” In this video, I share with you my tips and tricks on how we make this work for our family.

The whole point of Sabbath is that we can rest, trusting that the Lord is going to take care of everything. We don’t need to feel we have to work and stay busy all the time. It is a faith walk! I think the Sabbath helps remind us that we can just rest in the Lord.

It is so much easier to rest when you’re in a restful space, when your mind is able to turn off. So many of our burdens aren’t just what we’re doing and the act of taking care of something, but the mental burden of thinking about what to make, what to do with the kids, and all these different things. Having this organized weekly routine just eliminates all your mental burdens.

We need a rest from everything we do, and that includes homemaking!

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving today and a restful weekend!
Katie

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00:003:25 Introduction
3:258:19 Prep Day
8:1917:36 Meal Planning
17:3623:10 Laundry/Cleaning
23:1024:14 Touring Children’s Rooms
24:1426:32 Shortcuts
26:3228:52 Summarizing