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Fourteen gentle chapters for returning to God through the garden, home, season, and ordinary ground of your own life.
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Reflections for the season you are living.
Stories from the garden, the kitchen table, Scripture, and the ordinary places where God is still teaching us how to return.
Read one slowly. Let it meet the life you actually have.
When Everything Is Waiting for You: Finding the Next Faithful Thing
by: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 27/10/2026When the garden and the to-do list are both waiting, Luke 10 helps us discern what is truly urgent, what can wait, and the next faithful thing.
Making Room for What Matters in an Unfinished Garden
by: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 13/10/2026A smaller border, knee-high weeds, and bright pink flowers: learning to tend what matters, receive beauty, and make room for rest in an unfinished season.
The Turn Toward Home: Looking Well to the Ways of Your Household as Fall Arrives
by: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 29/09/2026Proverbs 31:27 without the superwoman checklist — why fall calls us home, why a smaller garden is a wiser one, and how to rebuild sunken beds in layers.
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Break Up Your Fallow Ground: Blooming Where You're Planted and the Old, Good Ways of Home
by: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 15/09/2026Hosea 10:12 for the woman in a full season — why the fallow ground is your home, your street, your ordinary hands. Plus fall bed prep for Zone 9.
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