Living on mission... in ones home.

Yesterday I wrote about your life being your mission, and wherever you are being your mission field. I want to follow that up by exploring it a bit deeper.  Focusing in on being a reflection of Jesus at home.  We often try hard to "let our little light shine" while out in the public eye. Admittedly we do not even always try out there. But, we far to often view home as a place to "let it all hang out" to just relax and be ourselves. Now our homes should be a safe place, a place where we can relax. Our families should know us better, more intimately than our co-workers, or a stranger in the market. But digging in to the call of Jesus to live our lives on mission, being His body, how much more should we try to let Him shine through us at home.  Relaxing should not mean that we relax our convictions, and become careless in our holiness. Just because we are with our family should not mean that we use less care in how we speak to and interact with them. Paul urges us men to treat our wives with great respect and honor using the example of how Christ loved the church as our standard. I wonder if our wives see Jesus accurately when they are with us?  Knowing also that our children learn more by watching how we live then by simply listening to what we say, I wonder if our children are getting to know Jesus by spending time with us?