Build a Cozy Life & Business from Home

My guess is that when you first think of “the cozy life” you might imagine a day like this.

It’s the middle of the afternoon on a Tuesday, you’re sipping a cup of tea while you’re curled up on the couch. You’ve tucked yourself snugly under your favourite blanket and you’re feeling particularly cute in your comfiest knit sweater.

Your kids are taking a nap so you have a glorious hour or two to work on your online art business or passion project – whatever fancies you that day. Not to mention, that your online business is actually bringing in some cash. I know right?!

Dinner has been prepped and will be ready in thirty-minutes or less. Your laundry is clean, washed, and put away. The kids are actually looking forward to bath night and go down to sleep without a fuss. You already cleaned up the kitchen and tidied up after dinner – so you come down the stairs to a quiet, warmly lit, living room.

Since, you already got some work done earlier in the day, you feel free to pick up a book, or spend some time crafting in your little hobby nook.

Peak coziness achieved for the day.

Sounds pretty great right? And admittedly, a day like this would be amazing in my book.

But, I believe that “the cozy life” is more than just time freedom and a series of systems and weekly rhythms.

Even though, I think those things are really important, I want us to dig a little deeper…

What’s under the surface?

I think we can find “the cozy life” at the intersection of diligence and discipline. Trust and rest. Gratitude and open-handedness. The place where we fight for joy and cling to hope, pushing back the darkness. Walking forward in faith to fight the good fight. It’s when we have the capacity to mourn with those who mourn and rejoice with those who rejoice. We see it in a holy tenderness of the heart as we operate out of a deep-seated kind of joy.

The Abundant Life

Honestly, I think the true goal is the abundant life (see John 15).

I’m learning to rest in what is and to be content with what I have today. I don’t want to worry about tomorrow, and yet I desire to be hopeful for what is to come. I long to pour my creative energy into something that honours the good, the true, and the beautiful.

Maybe I’ll find some like-minded people along the way who resonate with the longing to experience a healthy, fruitful, flourishing life – despite our circumstances. I hope that what I share here on this blog will help, in some small way, to build a trellis that supports this kind of growth.

What I would love to see is a community of women who are living the lives that they’ve been called too. Who are loving their families and neighbours well. Who see themselves, increasingly so, as their heavenly Father does. Women who are functioning in their giftedness and sharing that with the world, whatever that looks like in this season of life.

So come, join me, as we practice cultivating contentment in the everyday.