This has been one of my greatest delights as a mother. Home can be one of the most deeply transformative places in the world, a refuge where lives are touched, hearts are shaped, and God is known.

Home should be a beautiful place filled with God’s grace — where people are loved without expectation, the table is enjoyed with all its God-given delights, memories are made because people want to remember, and the sacred sense of welcome and belonging is offered to each person who enters.

God has entrusted mothers to be the makers of homes, the cultivators of beauty, and the givers of life.

Read more about this in 10 Gifts of Heart.