Eternal Significance in the Mundane

The dishes are never-ending!

I can never seem to catch up on the laundry!

I swear I’ve put away the same toy ten times today!

Every day feels the same. Wake up. Clean. Take care of my daughter. Make sure my husband is fed. Go to bed. Then wake up and do it all over again.

Lately, I’ve found myself feeling angry and frustrated about it. Like I have no time to myself. Like I never get to do the things I want to do.

This is the season I’m in right now.

And if I’m being honest, my heart hasn’t always been grateful. I’ve been exhausted. And quite frankly, I’ve had a bad attitude about just about everything.

Thankfully, I have good godly friends in my life who are in the same season. Other moms. Other homemakers. Women who get it. Maybe you’re one of them.

Recently, I did a Bible study on the Bible app with one of my mom friends, and one phrase from that study has stayed with me:

“There is eternal significance in the mundane.”

Read that again…

There is eternal significance in the mundane.

That truth completely shifted my perspective.

The dishes.

The laundry.

The meals I put on the table.

The 2 a.m., 4 a.m., and 6 a.m. wake-ups.

All of it is kingdom work.

If you need a reminder to keep going—and to do it with a heart of gratitude—here it is. This is what God says about homemaking and motherhood.

“25 She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” Proverbs 31:25–28 NIV

To be a good and faithful servant to the Lord is to serve your household well. It is to love your husband. It is to care for the children God has entrusted to you.

We are only our children’s earthly parents. Ultimately, God is their Father. He has trusted His children to us—to care for them, raise them, and point them back to Him.

My daughter is only five months old at the time of me writing this, but I already think about the example I want to set for her. I want her to see me serving her, serving my husband, and serving the Lord faithfully. 

With every dish I put away. With every dinner I cook. With every diaper I change.

I want her to know what servanthood looks like.

Because at the end of the day, our greatest goal in motherhood isn’t just raising good kids—it’s leading our children to the Lord.

“But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 NLT

Now, here’s my disclaimer, mamas.

This all sounds great. We know what we should do. And I wish I could tell you that every day I wake up excited to change diapers, thrilled to wash dishes, and overjoyed to cook dinner.

That’s not my reality.

This is just as much a reminder to myself as it is to you.

When I feel my heart becoming ungrateful, I have to speak truth over myself.

I’m thankful to do these dishes—even when I don’t feel like it.

I’m thankful to serve my household by cooking another meal.

These are things I once prayed for.

I prayed for a husband. I prayed for children. I prayed for a family. And now that I have what I prayed for, I choose to complain.

That thought changes my heart posture every time.

Motherhood is not easy. Homemaking is not glamorous. But it matters.

“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6 NIV