Seeking Content creation path
Q: I would greatly appreciate both prayers and advice. For context, I am a happy married mother of two small children and a very active member of my church. I'm trying to get a YouTube channel off the ground and be somewhat of a content creator. My issue the most is time. I want to be present with my children and be engaged with them all day long (I'm a SAHM). But I have a home to maintain and right now, I cannot keep up with my housework. All day every day I'm stressing about my house and my kids. I see all the clutter in my home and it makes me want to scream. How do you do it? How do you maintain a healthy relationship with God, your husband and children, keep a tidy and clean home, pursue personal goals and aspirations, be an active member of church participating in various ministries, and trying to maintain sanity? I'm struggling. Either I clean my house all day long and not do anything with my kids or hobbies or I don't clean and my house looks embarrassing. What do I do? I've prayed about this over and over. I haven't lost any faith in God. I haven't stopped loving Him or believing He can and will help me. I just don't know how to pray about it anymore. I've said all that there is to say about it. What am I missing??
A: Your job is to raise the Kids well in the Lord, manage the home when he is not there, and serve God.
Once home, your husband should be helping in the home equally and it's a modern myth that only women are to. He is to be a humble loving sacrificing servant as Christ did for the Church. But thay doesn't give you license to run off and run some business to the detriment of the home and family. If you were well off and had hired home helpers you could pursue such hobbies (under godly supervision).
Firstly your ministry is to your children and husband. If that's not being taken care of [or waiting till theyre adults], you can't pursue other things like content creation. It is a very stressful time-consuming pursuit that usually destroys families, brings depression, stress and anxiety, and long term studies show it only ends up paying minimum wage. Its not worth it. It's not advisable. And anyone whose single who does it would need to do it under the supervision of their church leaders. As would the wife under both the husbands spiritual guidance and church leadership as they're your shepherds to submit to, if thd kids are grown and gone.
But we are called to serve in and use our gifts in the church and at home doing our role and ministry, so that should be the priority. The husband should be the provider. The wife the helper in the home and in marriage. Pursuing the eternal.
We need to focus on the purpose God has given us as humans & believers, and that's being eternally minded, properly living out our role at home and at church. Not earthly minded pursuing the things of the world.
There's tons of YouTube channels out there for Christians already, so simply share links to those [the biblical ones] in situations where useful to do so.
Don't pursue it for riches. You can't serve 2 masters, money and God. Do not destroy your home & marriage over this.
Seek godly counsel from your Pastor and Husband, and submit to their headship leadership over you in faith.
God bless
