Thank you all for your sweet, encouraging comments yesterday.  This morning I read something in The Discipline of Grace that I found encouraging in the context of yesterday’s post.  The author was writing about Scripture memorization, in particular, but I think it applies to homemaking, as well.

The truth is, however, all forms of discipline require work and are often discouraging.  But the person who perseveres in any discipline, despite the hard work and discouraging times, reaps the reward the discipline is intended to produce.

I never really thought of homemaking as a “discipline” before, but isn’t it?  Doing what you know to be right, on an ongoing basis, even when it requires a concerted effort, is discipline, is it not?  And disciplines eventually produce fruit, even though they, themselves, are not the fruit.