Home Is for Hospitality: Why Your Home and Homemaking Matter

Hospitality is not just for restaurants and hotels. It’s actually the primary mission of your home. To be hospitable is to facilitate growth and connection, not merely comfort and convenience. If we as wives, mothers, and homemakers feel discouraged and unmotivated in our work at home, we are probably suffering from a lack of vision and mission. Hospitality provides a biblical category for the meaningfulness of even mundane chores and cookies, because not only guests, but also our families, require hospitality in order to thrive. With all the magazines and tv shows showcasing pristine, elegant homes with clean lines and bright colors, we have an unrealistic vision for our job as homemakers. The home we are making is not the stuff of hgtv. Our homemaking is not supposed to be about creating monuments to our taste. Instead, we make homes that foster humanity, life, joy. Guess what? That’s messy! So homemaking is about facilitating the life and joy of the humans in our homes. Our homemaking is about true hospitality. We offer hospitality – a refuge, a place of becoming more whole – in our homes. That is what our home is for and that mission is so big that it requires someone to be devoted to it. We are to be the convivial, hospitality presence in our homes. That is our mission and purpose as homemakers, and it is satisfying, vital, glorious.