Transitioning to What Truly Matters

Transitioning to What Truly Matters

“You just stay home? Don’t you have any goals for yourself?”

I’ve heard those questions before, and maybe you have too.
They are laced with a tone that implies motherhood, homemaking, and the quiet rhythms of family life aren’t real goals. That they somehow fall short of significance.

I do have goals, but they may look different than what the world might expect. My goal is to be a good mom, a loving wife, and a peaceful homemaker - a soft place my family can land at the end of each day.

I want to raise children who truly know they are loved and will grow up with deep-rooted values.
As adults, I want to hear my children say, “My childhood felt safe. It was happy. I was seen and supported.”

This is what truly matters to me, not titles, not climbing ladders, and not gaining approval from a culture that often overlooks the eternal value of home and family.

What We Build at Home Echoes Beyond Us

In a world obsessed with hustle and outward achievement, we forget that raising a whole, healthy human is a world-changing mission. The children we nurture today are the leaders, healers, dreamers, and truth, bearers of tomorrow.

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” — Proverbs 22:6 (ESV)

Raising children with intentional love, spiritual grounding, and moral clarity is not passive work, it’s Kingdom work, it’s legacy, and it has generational impact. 

“Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.”
— Psalm 127:3 (NIV)

When we invest in our homes, we are sowing seeds into the future. We are shaping the world not just through what we do, but through who we raise.

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”
— 3 John 1:4 (NIV)

Your Gift to the World

Mother, homemaker, nurturer, don’t underestimate the value of what you’re doing. If the world never gives you a standing ovation or a fancy title, Heaven still sees, God sees, and your family feels it. One day the fruit of your labor will speak for itself through the lives you have shaped.

Our children are not just our responsibility, they are our gift to the world. What you’re building in the unseen - the hugs, the meals, the hard conversations, the prayers whispered in the dark,
IT MATTERS MORE THAN YOU REALIZE!

So if your goal in life is raising the next generation with love, faith, and purpose, you're not falling behind, you're right on mission!

♥️

Listen to the song The Home by Newsboys

Author: Priscilla Campbell

Editor:  Christine Platt