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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.

Break Up Your Fallow Ground: Blooming Where You're Planted and the Old, Good Ways of Home

Break Up Your Fallow Ground: Blooming Where You're Planted and the Old, Good Ways of Homeby: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 15/09/2026

Hosea 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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Break Up Your Fallow Ground: Blooming Where You're Planted and the Old, Good Ways of Home

Do Not Despise the Day of Small Things: When One Small Thing Is All You Have

Do Not Despise the Day of Small Things: When One Small Thing Is All You Haveby: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 09/09/2026

Zechariah 4:10 for the weary gardener — God rejoices to see the work begin. A Rooted Moment on doing one small faithful thing when you can't do it all.

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Do Not Despise the Day of Small Things: When One Small Thing Is All You Have

Whatever Is Still Green: Training Your Eyes on the Good When the Whole Garden Is Struggling

Whatever Is Still Green: Training Your Eyes on the Good When the Whole Garden Is Strugglingby: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 01/09/2026

A scorched Zone 9 garden, a bougainvillea blooming anyway, and Philippians 4:8 — how to train your eyes on what is still green when the season has been hard.

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Whatever Is Still Green: Training Your Eyes on the Good When the Whole Garden Is Struggling

A Time to Slow Down: Why Rooted in Grace Is Moving to One Episode a Week

A Time to Slow Down: Why Rooted in Grace Is Moving to One Episode a Weekby: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 29/08/2026

God didn't make a world of endless summer — He made seasons. A short garden devotional on Ecclesiastes 3:1, and a gentle change to our podcast rhythm.

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A Time to Slow Down: Why Rooted in Grace Is Moving to One Episode a Week

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