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The first unglamorous part of our 90-day mission

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Dear friend,

I just completed a very unglamorous part of my 90-day summer mission. Last week, I invited you all to join me in falling back in love with our homes (our lives!) this coming summer. But my first task on this mission was ugly.

My pastor often reminds us to do the thing we want to do least first, a desperate tactic to help us prioritize our energy toward the very thing we're trying to avoid. As I thought through this challenge, I realized that falling back in love with our homes this summer goes far beyond bouquets of parsley and ironing our linens. Those are all lovely and delightful, most certainly, but before those gifts can feel delightful, perhaps it is far more important that we deal with some of the darker, uglier, more unglamorous corners of our home. Like (insert yours here)… lest cultivating beauty in our homes end up feeling far more like lipstick on a pig than we’d hoped…

Some beauty amongst the effort.

Even though I didn’t want to, I thought long and hard about the pieces of our home that felt ugly — the pieces that I didn’t, couldn’t, love. Here’s a not-so-fun exercise: what feels emotionally ugly in your home? What would you like to see emotionally change?

I asked myself these same hard questions.

We might as well get this over with…