{"id":2169,"date":"2022-01-12T10:08:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michelleleenolan.com\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:08:54","slug":"a-wise-woman-builds-her-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelleleenolan.com\/a-wise-woman-builds-her-house\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wise Woman Builds Her House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I watched as she positioned the miniature furniture delicately in her cottage. She said, Look, Mimi, My house looks good.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My granddaughter was busy placing furniture in each room for her family of miniature rabbits. With focused attention, she moved each piece of furniture into each room of her cozy cottage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like my granddaughter, we love to decorate our homes and make them look beautiful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hunt for the perfect piece of furniture to fit our home. I wonder what our lives would be like if we selected our words as thoughtfully as we do our home decor. It can be therapeutic and fun to decorate our home but It\u2019s our attitude that reflects the beauty of a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can take back pieces that don\u2019t work in a room but our spoken words are a different story. Once released it\u2019s hard to stuff them back in. Words build up or tear down. They have the potential to heal or hurt and a person can wield a lot of power with a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Speech Reveals Our Heart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our speech <\/a>gives away what we carry around in our hearts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.<\/strong><\/p>Matthew 12:34<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It is possible to drive by a million-dollar house but it might not be a home. It might be filled with beautiful things but sad people. Houses filled with strife and not love are more costly than a dollar amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wise woman builds her house by watching over her ways first and then, the ways of her house. She wants to build something that is lasting, not temporary. A foolish woman does not build this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wants to build character in the members of her household by demonstrating this with her own careful choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is more taught than caught by being intentional about what she wants to instill in her home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A foolish woman neglects all these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The law of kindness is on her tongue <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A wise woman builds her house by setting an example in having conversations full of grace and seasoned with salt towards her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is slow to speak and quick to listen when she feels angry. She knows her attitude is something she controls and can set the tone with each family member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She guards her tongue against speaking critically about others and she brings encouragement as she corrects things that are out of order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This doesn’t mean she is never angry but she chooses how<\/em> to respond in those moments when she could blow her lid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wise woman builds her house by guarding her heart against becoming resentful when her family members aren\u2019t pulling their weight around the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When yet again she comes into a kitchen full of dirty dishes. She can hit pause and exhale for a minute before she addresses it. Sixty seconds of breathing deeply have spared hearts broken by words spoken in anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Remember this when they don’t complete chores, or fulfill the honey-do list, or wait until the last minute scrambling with a school project that is due tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She keeps forgiveness at the forefront of her heart. When she can\u2019t control things that didn\u2019t get done she makes sure she controls herself. She can always control herself and her response in whatever is left undone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She might feel the anger but she doesn’t nurse it and allow it to take first place as she instructs them. Wisdom teaches her to preserve an atmosphere that keeps arguing at a minimum. She knows how to de-escalate the members of her household carrying water to situations and not gasoline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has the power to build her house or tear it down with her own hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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