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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.
You Can't Leave the Ground Empty: What the Weeds Taught Me About Filling the Right Spaces
by: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 11/08/2026Bare soil never stays bare. What a twelve-foot herb bed I cannot keep weeded taught me about Matthew 12:43-45, quitting habits, and planting something good in the cleared place.
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It's Okay to Leave the Mess for Tomorrow: Faithfulness When You Can't Get to It All
by: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 04/08/2026You are not going to finish — and leaving it unfinished is not the same as failing. Philippians 1:6, thirty stolen minutes in the garden, and a Gardener who works the night shift.
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What Grows in the Empty Places: Planting Again After the Season You Lost
by: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 28/07/2026The empty garden bed isn't the end of the story. What Isaiah 61 and a bean vine climbing old tomato twine taught me about planting again after loss.
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Why I made Rooted in Grace Free
by: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 14/02/2026I wrote Rooted in Grace because I was spiritually scattered. Here's the personal story behind why I'm giving it away for free.
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