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# Christie Purifoy

A Spacious Place

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## Posts

- [Radical Lives and White Picket Fences](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2020/06/17/radical-lives-and-white-picket-fences/)
- [A New Point of View on Native Plants](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2020/02/13/a-new-point-of-view-on-native-plants/)
- [My Favorite Roses](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2020/02/13/my-favorite-roses/)
- [Seeds for Beauty and for Flavor](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2020/02/13/seeds-for-beauty-and-for-flavor/)
- [Introducing: Paper&String](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2020/01/23/introducing-paperstring/)
- [Advent (Second Friday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/12/advent-second-friday/) - An Advent guest post from one who shares Mary's burden and Mary's blessing this year: on preparing Christ room by Danielle Ayers Jones.
- [Ep. 24 - A Gift For The Listeners We Love](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/03/08/ep-24-a-gift-for-the-listeners-we-love/)
- [Ep. 23 - All Our Nosy Listener Questions Answered](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/03/08/ep-23-all-our-nosy-listener-questions-answered/)
- [Ep. 22 - An Easy Way To Reset Your Day](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/03/08/ep-22-an-easy-way-to-reset-your-day/)
- [Ep. 21 - How Not To Fear Grief](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/03/08/ep-21-how-not-to-fear-grief/)
- [Ep. 20 - Why It Might Be Time To Claim A New Name](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/03/08/ep-20-why-it-might-be-time-to-claim-a-new-name/)
- [Ep. 19 - You Called Me WHAT Now?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/03/08/ep-19-you-called-me-what-now/)
- [Ep. 18 - We Were Wrong About Marie Kondo](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/03/08/ep-18-we-were-wrong-about-marie-kondo/)
- [A Letter to My Younger Self](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/02/22/a-letter-to-my-younger-self/)
- [Ep 1 - Everything Big Starts Small](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/09/12/ep-1-everything-big-starts-small/)
- [Ep. 17 - When the Answer is "No"](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/01/16/ep-17-when-the-answer-is-no/)
- [Ep. 16 - When Your Worst Fear Comes True](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/01/16/ep-16-when-your-worst-fear-comes-true/)
- [Ep. 15 - An Alternative to New Year's Resolutions](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2019/01/16/ep-15-an-alternative-to-new-years-resolutions/)
- [Ep. 14 - Does God Still Give Good Gifts at Christmastime?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/12/12/ep-14-does-god-still-give-good-gifts-at-christmastime/)
- [An Inconvenient Hope](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/12/12/an-inconvenient-hope/)
- [Ep. 13 - How to Keep Doing Your Ordinary Work Without Feeling Discouraged During the Holiday Season](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/12/05/ep-13-how-to-keep-doing-your-ordinary-work-without-feeling-discouraged-during-the-holiday-season/)
- [Ep. 12 - Ordinary Life at Christmastime](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/12/05/ep-12-ordinary-life-at-christmastime/)
- [Ep. 11 - When Life Feels Like a Series of Interruptions](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/12/05/ep-11-when-life-feels-like-a-series-of-interruptions/)
- [Ep. 10 - When You Feel Invisible](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/11/14/ep-10-when-you-feel-invisible/)
- [Ep. 9 - What If Hope Scares You Silly?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/11/07/ep-9-what-if-hope-scares-you-silly/)
- [Ep. 8 - You Have Permission To Let That Go](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/10/31/ep-8-you-have-permission-to-let-that-go/)
- [Ep. 7 - Instead of Setting Goals, Try This](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/10/31/ep-7-instead-of-setting-goals-try-this/)
- [Ep. 6 - Here Is Your New Business Card](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/10/17/ep-6-here-is-your-new-business-card/)
- [Autumn Parables](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/10/11/autumn-parables/)
- [Ep. 5 - How To Know When You've Had Enough](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/10/10/ep-5-how-to-know-when-youve-had-enough/)
- [Ep 4 - How Our Show Got Its Name](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/10/03/ep-4-how-our-show-got-its-name/)
- [Ep 3 - The Good News About Broken Dreams](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/09/26/ep-3-the-good-news-about-broken-dreams/)
- [Ep 2 - The Antidote to Dissatisfaction](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/09/19/ep-2-the-antidote-to-dissatisfaction/)
- [All the Colors We Will See: Guest Post and Giveaway](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/08/13/all-the-colors-we-will-see-guest-post-and-giveaway/)
- [Where to Find Real Rest](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/07/12/where-to-find-real-rest/)
- [A Summer Manifesto](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/06/14/a-summer-manifesto/)
- [All Things New (A Springtime Giveaway)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/04/18/all-things-new-a-springtime-giveaway/)
- [My Small Span of Ardent Life (A Guest Post)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/04/10/my-small-span-of-ardent-life-a-guest-post/) - A guest post in celebration of a wonderful, just-released book: Forgiving God, by Hilary Yancey. Yancey's writing is lyrical and wise, and I can't wait to dig into her new book.
- [Here in the Valley of the Shadow of Death](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/02/13/here-in-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death/) - A post for the beginning of Lent especially for those who know they walk in the valley of the shadow of death. Don't be afraid. Easter morning may still be a long way off, but the fog is rolling back. The sky is bright with stars.
- [A Winter Reset (and Giveaway)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2018/02/01/a-winter-reset-and-giveaway/) - Free Printables: my gift to you. By winter's halfway, we need a reset. We need to remember the good things about this dark season: warm fires, hot drinks, long books, and geraniums on the sill. Here are four winter prints for home and garden.
- [The Good News I Can't Quite Believe](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/12/07/the-good-news-i-cant-quite-believe/) - A reflection for Advent: my son has been healed, but we are only slowly waking up to this good news. A light has dawned, but we are shielding our eyes.
- [A Terrible Beauty (Autumn Giveaway)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/09/26/a-terrible-beauty-autumn-giveaway/) - Autumn is my favorite season, but it does not feel like a safe season. It is a terrible beauty. To ease our hearts, here is a printable giveaway of autumn delights.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (New Books!)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/09/12/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-new-books/) - At Maplehurst, September is for bithdays, apple pies, and books. Here are five great new book releases with beautiful stories and beautiful art.
- [Writing Books in a Time of Crisis (An Announcement)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/08/31/writing-books-in-a-time-of-crisis-an-announcement/) - In these crisis days, I am partnering with Zondervan in the slow work of writing a new book. But slow work, like this can save the world.
- [Reaching For Roots (A Summer Guest Post)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/07/18/reaching-for-roots-a-summer-guest-post/) - A guest post about finding home on the move by Bekah DiFelice, the author of Almost There: Searching for Home in a Life on the Move.
- [The Longest Days](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/06/20/the-longest-days/) - I love summer, but, in June, I often wonder if I'll survive it. Summer days are the longest: at once too fast and too slow. This is my summer song.
- [A Summer Gift For You](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/06/05/a-summer-gift-for-you/) - I made a free gift for you: four pages from the book of my dreams. Pretty, practical, and poetic inspiration for the flower and veg gardens, kitchen, and reading chair.
- [Gardenbound: A Maplehurst Tour](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/05/25/gardenbound-a-maplehurst-tour/) - A "garden-bound" reflection and photographic tour of the gardens at Maplehurst in spring. Dogwood, poet's daffodil, chives, and "White Triumphator" tulips.
- [When Mother's Day Looks Like Empty Arms (A Guest Post)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/05/10/when-mothers-day-looks-like-empty-arms-a-guest-post/) - Being a mother is a blessing, which means it opens us up to joy and grief. Here is my writer friend Sharon McKeeman's story for those who grieve on Mother's Day.
- [Homebound: An Easter Tour of Maplehurst](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/04/20/homebound-a-tour-of-maplehurst/) - What is Lent, after all, but a kind of long homecoming? Here is your very own tour of Maplehurst at Easter time and the beginning of the conclusion to Homebound.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Friendship Edition)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/04/04/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-friendship-edition/) - Book recommendations for you: a great new book on friendship, a new book on unity, a book on the enneagram, and a collection of delightful essays.
- [Life and Death Among the Trees](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/03/31/life-and-death-among-the-trees/) - I want to know what the trees have always known: what it is to be planted so deep and so well that not even death can pull up these roots. Death, where is your sting?
- [Homebound: From Mersea to Maplehurst, With Love (March 21)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/03/21/homebound-from-mersea-to-maplehurst-with-love-march-21/) - First, there is the seed. Only later, new life. Sorrow and joy do co-exist, and that is never more true than while we walk this sharp edge between winter and spring.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Reading Gardening Books in a Blizzard)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/03/15/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-reading-gardening-books-in-a-blizzard/) - Here are some of my favorite gardening books. These are not reference books but highly personal accounts that will inspire you to better love the ground beneath your feet.
- [Homebound: From Mersea to Maplehurst, With Love (March 6)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/03/06/homebound-from-mersea-to-maplehurst-with-love-march-6/) - Lent is a sacred time, a season for active waiting. It is the season when I try to turn toward the source, like a daffodil turning its face toward the sun.
- [Homebound: From Mersea to Maplehurst, With Love (March 1)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/03/01/homebound-from-mersea-to-maplehurst-with-love-march-1/) - Here is an epistolary exploration of love, loss, and restoration for Lent. Elizabeth Marshall writes from Mersea and Christie Purifoy from Maplehurst.
- [Grace, a Year Later (A Guest Post)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/02/07/grace-a-year-later-a-guest-post/) - Hilary Yancey writes the kind of sweet-sharp prose I love. Here is a guest post for those waiting for help or good news but worry time is running out.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Book Birthday Edition)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/02/02/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-book-birthday-edition/) - Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons turns one today. In honor of my own book, here are more book recommendations for these last weeks of winter.
- [What the Trees Have Seen](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/01/25/what-the-trees-have-seen/) - Politics matter. Unity matters. What's a follower of Jesus to do? A reflection on beautiful old trees and being a Christian in the age of Trump.
- [Fire, Wind, and Water (One Year Later)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/01/13/fire-wind-and-water-one-year-later/) - A post for Shawn Campbell. One year later, rainbows are harder to come by. Yet I realize that the hems of our clothing still trail through salty water.
- [Life Right Now: New Year, New Month, New Season](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2017/01/04/life-right-now-new-year-new-month-new-season/) - Life right now is mild for January. Here's what I am reading, planning, and cooking right now. Includes, my favorite seed catalogs and a post for Grace Table.
- [For These Last Advent Days (A Guest Post)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/12/20/for-these-last-advent-days-a-guest-post/) - An Advent reflection from writer, speaker, teacher, Bonnie O'Neil. May we, like Mary, choose the mystery of a faith-filled life.
- [Glad Days Will Come](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/12/12/glad-days-will-come/) - A post for the longest, darkest night. A reflection on Solstice, Advent, and the glad days of Christmas. This is for the grieving. This is to remember what is still to come.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves: All New Favorites for Advent and Christmas](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/12/03/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-all-new-favorites-for-advent-and-christmas/) - Book recommendations for Advent and Christmas, including picture books for kids and adults, a classic murder mystery, and Victorian short stories of plum pudding and property.
- [Keep Watch (This is Advent)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/11/28/keep-watch-this-is-advent/) - A reflection for the first Sunday of Advent from Behold, God's Promises, a publication of the women's ministry at Church of the Good Samaritan, Paoli, PA.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves: Advent Favorites](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/11/23/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-advent-favorites/) - Here is a roundup of my favorite books for Advent and Christmas. Find books links and my latest post for Grace Table, too.
- [The Stones Will Cry Out](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/11/17/the-stones-will-cry-out/) - A reflection on peace and the kingdom of God, inspired by autumn leaves and broken walls. We will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.
- [Behold Our King](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/11/12/behold-our-king/) - A song and a lament. A reflection on kings and dreams of peace. Inspired by Scripture.
- [In Times Like These, Plant a Tree](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/11/03/in-times-like-these-plant-a-tree/) - Controversies swirl, bombs fall, but we are not afraid nor dismayed. We are too busy planting and tending trees. A reflection on the tree of life.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (How To Slow Time Edition)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/10/03/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-how-to-slow-time-edition/)
- [Of Hospitals, and Butterflies, and Praise](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/09/15/of-hospitals-and-butterflies-and-praise/) - This child I love is as fragile and vulnerable as a butterfly. I want to forget this, but it is so important to remember all of it: the fragility and the beauty.
- [Why We Must Not Stop Grieving](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/08/30/why-we-must-not-stop-grieving/) - Time is cruel because it carries us so far from all we have loved and lost. Time is sweet grace because it propels us, ready or not, toward a hoped-for day.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (And The Ministry Of Flowers)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/08/16/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-and-the-ministry-of-flowers/) - Today is book release day for one of my favorite writers. Here are books for the important work of loving our neighbors. Here are books about cake and flowers.
- [Life Right Now](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/08/09/life-right-now-4/) - We are living in one more messy middle, but I have seen the goodness of God in the land of the living. What will we harvest next?
- [Summer Song (Feel Free to Cry Along)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/07/26/summer-song-feel-free-to-cry-along/) - There’s a kind of epiphany that only comes when the music is turned up loud and you are all alone in the car. It’s a strange mix of sadness, joy, and gratitude.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (In a Time of Violence)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/07/09/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-in-a-time-of-violence/) - Here are some of the books on these farmhouse bookshelves. Here is the racist fear that hides even in my own heart. Can poetry help us in a time of violence?
- [Life Right Now: Summer Snapshots and Links](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/06/23/life-right-now-summer-snapshots-and-links/) - Here are summer snapshots and links to more of my writing. This is a summer post, a birthday post, a post of sorrow and joy.
- [When It Is Summer (A Guest Post)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/06/14/when-it-is-summer-a-guest-post/) - This guest post by the Texas writer Abby Perry reminds us that time - even when it hangs heavy as a summer rain cloud - is a good gift from our good God.
- [Where To Find Perfection](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/06/03/where-to-find-perfection/) - Praise be to God for broken houses, broken hearts, broken bodies, and all the other perfectly broken things. A post about this perfectly broken old house.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves: Comfort Reading](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/05/14/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-comfort-reading/) - I couldn't read, and now I can't stop reading. Here are some of my favorite recent reads: a novel, a sorrowful memoir, and a hilarious one.
- [Every Good And Perfect Gift](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/05/03/every-good-and-perfect-gift/) - I am confident that every good gift is from God. I am no longer confident that I can tell what is good and what is bad. And even grief can be a gift.
- [In This End Is Our Beginning (On Going Home Again)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/04/19/in-this-end-is-our-beginning-on-going-home-again/) - What are blessings but those gifts hardest to receive? For this trip to our Texas home and this burial of a much loved man, we say thank you. And, Lord have mercy.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/04/09/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-29/) - A new installment in my occasional series of book recommendations: Find a great mystery, spiritual formation, the Festival of Faith and Writing, and my writing elsewhere.
- [What Comes After Easter](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/04/01/what-comes-after-easter/) - For the grieving, Easter promises hope. But our Easter was disappointing. "What now?" I wondered. But we are not waiting for resurrection. We are living it.
- [Life Right Now](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/03/19/life-right-now-3/) - Life right now is beautiful and hard. It is a magnolia in bloom and a forecast of snow. Here is what I am reading, writing, and reflecting on right now.
- [We Will Stay](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/03/11/we-will-stay/) - I knew our commitment to stay would be tested. Now, with this house on the cover of a book, I am questioning all of it. Because this old house is too much.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves: Before and After](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/02/27/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-before-and-after/) - I began writing this post before, but I will finish it in the after. Here are some of the books on these farmhouse bookshelves: a picture book, a food book, a book of my own.
- [No Longer Afraid](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/02/16/no-longer-afraid/) - Why do terrible things happen? I can't face that question, but I am asking this: what happens next? What comes after the nightmare of loss? Is God's love enough?
- [Now We Are Awake](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/02/08/now-we-are-awake/) - She cried, "It isn't fair." And she was right. This grief is not fair. But in our house, we don't do fair, we do love. And this love is bigger than our grief.
- [For Everything There is a Season](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/02/01/for-everything-there-is-a-season/) - We prayed for rescue, but Shawn Campbell did not need to be rescued. Perhaps the prayers were for ourselves.
- [These Words Are Still True](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/01/17/these-words-are-still-true/) - We are confronting a great sadness and pray for the safe return of Shawn Campbell. But here is hope. I hold it in my hands in the form of this book.
- [The Things We Make](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/01/13/the-things-we-make/) - We are not all artists, but we all make things. We all long to hear "well done." Those words are gift we give to one another. Here are five gifts given to me.
- [Waiting for Permission to be Happy (and Snow)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/01/05/waiting-for-permission-to-be-happy-and-snow/) - Is it okay to be happy when our world is so full of trouble? The answer is Yes. The answer is snow. The answer is Christmas.
- [New Website, New Book, New Year (+ A Gift For You)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2016/01/01/new-website-new-book-new-year-a-gift-for-you/) - On the first day of a new year, I am unveiling a new website, a new book, and a new gift for you. Roots and Sky will be here soon. Happy New Year, friends.
- [The Candle of Peace and the Gun in My Yard](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/12/08/the-candle-of-peace-and-the-gun-in-my-yard/) - An Advent reflection and a prayer for peace. How do we follow the Prince of Peace in a dangerous world?
- [Emptiness in Heaven](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/12/18/emptiness-in-heaven/) - God knows our grief. An Advent reflection.
- [If We Make It Through December](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/12/21/if-we-make-it-through-december/) - Every year, the dark is darker in December. If we make it through this month, we'll be fine, but I want more than fine. I want gladness.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Advent 2)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/12/05/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-advent-2/) - Here are a few recommendations from our Christmas storybook collection. 'Tis the season for reading.
- [Be Not Conformed](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/12/02/be-not-conformed/) - I am increasingly out of sync with the world. I am longing to inherit the earth (a post for Advent).
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Advent 1)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/11/28/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-advent-1/) - Ready for some Advent reads? We won't cut down our Christmas tree for a few weeks yet, but the Christmas storybook collection is coming out of its box. Here are my recommendations.
- [We All Want to Go Home](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/11/19/we-all-want-to-go-home/) - I wrote Roots and Sky because I had found my way home. Now my heart breaks for the homeless. This is a post about Syrian refugees. This is about good news.
- [This is How to Carry the Weight of the World](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/06/17/this-is-how-to-carry-the-weight-of-the-world/) - There is so much bad news, and my child is learning about the Holocaust. I feel powerless, but I am not. Because there is a river. And this is how you stand in it.
- [This Beautiful, Complicated Story](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/11/12/this-beautiful-complicated-story/) - How do you tell a story built on contradictions? This is the complicated story of my son's severe food allergies. In this story, loss is loss but also gain.
- [Life Right Now](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/11/03/life-right-now-2/) - Has turned a corner and is picking up speed. Here are links to a few of my favorite things right now, like good tea and good books. New blogs and good recipes.
- [Why I Am Grateful For Halloween](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/10/30/why-i-am-grateful-for-halloween/) - Today, we will carve pumpkins, adjust costumes, have a conversation about death. These words I wrote last year for Halloween are still true.
- [Trying To Survive My Favorite Month](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/10/23/trying-to-survive-my-favorite-month/) - Virginia Woolf was right. The beauty of an October day is laughter and anguish. Can we survive this glory?
- [Bandersnatch (A Guest Post)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/10/06/bandersnatch-a-guest-post/) - Erika Morrison is an unconventional soul, and her new book Bandersnatch is out today. Here she tells us more.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/10/03/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-28/) - Cold, dark days are fast upon us. Let us stock up on autumn squash, pumpkin spice, and good books. Here are new book recommendations for you.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (+ A Giveaway!)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/09/19/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-a-giveaway/) - Here are three book recommendations inspired by my recent visit to Alaska, two memoirs, a short story, and essays. Plus, bonus recommendations and a giveaway!
- [Life Right Now](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/09/23/life-right-now/) - Autumn begins today. I have planted 200 bulbs. I am reading. I am finding peace in the patterns of a life lived on earth.
- [The Only Way To Live](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/09/09/the-only-way-to-live/) - In Alaska, you learn what is true in every place: the only way to live is to die. Because death is a fading story, like beach glass smoothed by the sea.
- [A Book For You](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/08/22/a-book-for-you/) - I wrote this book for you. Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons. It's about coming home to a house. It's about inheriting the earth.
- [Why We Say "Yes" To Good Food](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/08/17/why-we-say-yes-to-good-food/) - Today, I am at Grace Table writing about eating with simplicity. Frankly, it can be a hassle. A delicious, beautiful hassle.
- [Letting Go (or, Raising Kids with Simplicity)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/08/05/letting-go-or-raising-kids-with-simplicity/) - It is one thing to choose simplicity for myself. It is much harder to choose simplicity and a life of less for my children.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (The Simple Life Edition)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/07/25/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-the-simple-life-edition/)
- [Searching For a Spacious Place](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/07/17/searching-for-a-spacious-place/) - I am at Ann Voskamp's place today sharing a photo essay on summer. The first in her "Unwrapping Summer" series, this is the story of my search for a spacious place.
- [Simple Hospitality (Or, Giving the Gift of Peace)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/07/08/simple-hospitality-or-giving-the-gift-of-peace/) - In our culture of excess, simplicity and hospitality can seem like oil and water. But they are not. Because the thing I most desire to give my guest is peace.
- [Let's Begin Losing Our Lives](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/07/01/lets-begin-losing-our-lives/) - Break the bread. Spill the oil. Keep giving until you wake up and realize you have given away your life. Because that is the morning you begin to live.
- [Making Room For Peace (A Series On Simplicity)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/06/25/making-room-for-peace-a-series-on-simplicity/) - I used to think simplicity was a lifestyle choice. I am beginning to think it is the door to the upside-down kingdom of Jesus. Introducing a blog series on simplicity.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Beach Optional Beach Reads)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/06/06/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-beach-optional-beach-reads/) - Summer is the season when we collectively give ourselves permission to read novels during the middle of the day. Here are three recommendations.
- [Life Right Now (Flowers, Books, and a Few Good Links)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/05/29/life-right-now-flowers-books-and-a-few-good-links/) - Life is so full, I can hardly stand it. Here is what we're growing, picking, eating, reading, and enjoying. A post about books and flowers and the best iced coffee.
- [Women Who Create (An Interview)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/05/20/women-who-create-an-interview/) - I feel pleased and privileged to be included in an inspiring blog series hosted by Danielle Ayers Jones: Women Who Create. Here is a link to the interview.
- [What I Saw In The Golden Hour](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/05/04/what-i-saw-in-the-golden-hour/) - Every day, between six and eight, my world becomes almost unbearably beautiful. There is so much terrible news that I hesitate to tell you my own Good News. Yet I must.
- [This Is Pizza Night, This Is Prayer](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/04/29/this-is-pizza-night-this-is-prayer/) - We began making our own pizzas when we moved away from pizza heaven (Chicago). I'm sharing a story of grace, prayer, and pizza at Grace Table. And our recipe!
- [Five Life-Changing Lessons From The Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/04/16/five-life-changing-lessons-from-the-garden/) - A list with photos (five things my garden teaches me in spring).
- [This Is How Dreams Come True](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/04/08/this-is-how-dreams-come-true/) - Dreams are like spring. You may see the signs of its coming, but its arrival is always a joyful surprise. Dreams like motherhood, homecoming, a first book.
- [A Small, Silly Thing](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/03/31/a-small-silly-thing/) - Life is made up of small, even boring things. But the boring rituals make the story deeper. I am honored to share this small story for Cara Meredith's blog series at Be, Mama, Be.
- [A New Name](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/03/17/a-new-name/) - Perhaps it is sorrow for all the broken pieces that gives us courage to stand up. To rise up, leave the sackcloth and ashes, and go searching for our new name.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/03/07/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-27/) - Here is what we're reading on these late-winter days: great gardening books, an astonishing new novel, and our favorite family picture book.
- [This Table Prepared For Me](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/02/16/this-table-prepared-for-me/) - I'm writing about "quiet hospitality" today at Grace Table. It isn't the story I intended to share. It's a better one. About teatime and family and prayer.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Cabin Fever Edition)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/02/14/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-cabin-fever-edition/) - We are spending the weekend feeding logs into our new woodstove. These are the books keeping us company: picture books, housekeeping books, gardening books. And a bonus!
- [This Is Me, Not Complaining About The Weather](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/02/04/this-is-me-not-complaining-about-the-weather/) - I thought I was longing for spring, but maybe I have been longing for winter's own particular beauty. There are no skies like fine blue china in June.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Writing-a-Book Edition)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2015/01/17/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-writing-a-book-edition/) - Another installment in my Saturday book recommendation series. A new mystery, a new book of essays, and a new favorite vintage gem.
- [For Christmas Eve (And For Always)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/24/for-christmas-eve-and-for-always/) - A guest post to conclude Advent by the writer Laura Lynn Brown. Because this ending is also a beginning. Because there is little else to say. Because of wonder.
- [Advent (Fourth Tuesday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/23/advent-fourth-tuesday/) - An Advent reflection from Ashley Larkin. Because the closer Christmas is the more overwhelmed I feel. But the only thing that should overwhelm is His light.
- [Advent (Fourth Monday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/22/advent-fourth-monday/) - An Advent reflection from Allison Duncan. We think Christmas is for giving gifts. But Christmas is always, for each of us, about receiving the very greatest gift.
- [Advent (Third Friday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/19/advent-third-friday/) - An Advent reflection from Campbell C. Hoffman. Christmas can be hard to find. Jesus, peace, hope: all hard to find. But they might be in surprising places. A rock concert. A funeral.
- [Advent (Third Wednesday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/17/advent-third-wednesday/) - An Advent reflection from Amy Peterson. A kingdom groans to be born, but we choose the epidural of materialism and make ourselves comfortable. Advent is not for the comfortable.
- [Advent (Third Monday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/15/advent-third-monday/) - An Advent guest post on loneliness from the talented writer, Cara Strickland. During Advent, Cara finds herself keeping company with all of Scripture's troubled, lonely seekers.
- [Advent (Second Wednesday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/10/advent-second-wednesday/) - An Advent reflection from my friend and fellow writer, Kimberly Coyle. We may want insta-Christmas, but the painful journey of Advent leads to a greater treasure.
- [Advent (Second Monday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/08/advent-second-monday/) - Kris Camealy shares a reflection on Christ's message for us in Advent: stay awake, pay attention, be present.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Advent Edition) + Giveaway!](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/06/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-advent-edition-giveaway/) - Today I give you books, more books, and a fabulous foodie-themed prize giveaway. Happy Advent, friends.
- [Advent (First Friday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/05/advent-first-friday/)
- [Advent (First Thursday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/04/advent-first-thursday/) - This world gets jingle bells and gifts, but Advent is the irrational season. We should remember Mary's song. It is the humble and hungry who receive.
- [Advent (First Wednesday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/03/advent-first-wednesday/) - An Advent reflection from Tresta Payne. This is a song of hope calling us to imagine so much more because God is so much more. This is good news.
- [Advent (First Monday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/12/01/advent-first-monday/) - A guest post for Advent from the beautiful writer Kelli Woodford. Light does more than come. It overcomes.
- [Advent (First Sunday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/11/30/advent-first-sunday/) - It is the first Sunday of Advent. Are you ready? Are your eyes open? I pray this season is as beautiful as the first snowfall. I pray it shakes the ground like thunder.
- [A Killing Freeze](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/11/13/a-killing-freeze/) - Cold air is pouring in, and we have heard terrible news. Is God still good? Are his promises still true? Winter is near, and I am afraid.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/11/08/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-26/) - It is dark and cold, and we are reading books in front of the fire like it's our job. Recommendations for a gorgeous novel, a book about time, and a cookbook.
- [Because We Have Already Died (A Reflection on the Eve of Halloween)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/10/30/because-we-have-already-died-a-reflection-on-the-eve-of-halloween/) - I am grateful for this opportunity to talk about death and dying. About baptism and what it might mean that we have already died with Christ. I am grateful for Halloween.
- [Narrow Roads and a Spacious Place](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/10/16/narrow-roads-and-a-spacious-place/) - I sometimes resist gratitude. But giving thanks does not mean renaming a prison a spacious place. It is the grateful acknowledgement that God always makes a way.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/10/11/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-25/) - This week I am not recommending books. I'm recommending seed and plant catalogs. Gardens are born in winter, and these catalogs will feed your dreams.
- [Parables](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/10/02/parables/) - I read my Bible, I watch the trees, I consider the birds. I collect hidden things and store them up for the winter day of my need.A meditation on wisdom and truth.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/09/27/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-24/) - Here is the latest in my occasional series of Saturday book recommendations. A new novel, a picture book, religious nonfiction, and a nature-writing classic.
- [Some Beginnings Are Like This](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/09/17/some-beginnings-are-like-this/) - Some beginnings are muddled and brown. They are not fresh. But God is doing something new, and our easy burden is only to look away from the past. Walk on.
- [The Puzzle of Prayer](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/09/10/the-puzzle-of-prayer/) - Which came first? Chicken or egg? Prayer or answer? These are puzzles I hope I never solve. They are too good as they are. Because God gives prayers as well as answers them.
- [This Life of Loose Ends](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/08/26/this-life-of-loose-ends/) - Summer has ended, and I am at loose ends. This is a reminder of where to find light and beauty when life grows darker, harder. Let us remember summer's lessons.
- [The Lives of Dry Bones (An Announcement)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/08/22/the-lives-of-dry-bones-an-announcement/) - I have written much about dreams come true but little of letting them die. Death is always the first step but don't despair. Dry bones will live. This is my story.
- [Following Christ to Ferguson](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/08/18/following-christ-to-ferguson/) - Jesus invites us, like Thomas, to touch his wounds, but reaching out to touch is never safe. We might find ourselves in troubled places with wounded people.
- [Depression and the Gift of Grief](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/08/13/depression-and-the-gift-of-grief/) - Depression stole both my capacity for joy and sorrow. Today, with our world lost in nightmare, I give thanks for healing and the gift of grief.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves: Summer Edition](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/08/02/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-summer-edition/) - Summer is sensory overload. Here are the books we're enjoying this season. They don't compete with summer's abundance, they complement it.
- [Here is the Fountain of Life](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/07/23/here-is-the-fountain-of-life/) - I am a mother and a gardener, and I have learned to seek eternity in the temporary. The fountain of life bubbles up in the most ephemeral places.
- [How To Swim in Symbolic Waters](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/07/14/how-to-swim-in-symbolic-waters/) - For the ancients, the sea was the home of Chaos. We may know better, but we still experience that terror, in big ways and small. Like the ordinary chaos of family life.
- [Reunion Days](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/07/12/reunion-days/) - The stories I write about my extended family are stories of absence. But absence grows good fruit. When we reunite, we discover just how much we've been given.
- [Grief in the Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/06/30/grief-in-the-garden/) - We have successfully banished grief from our lives. But sometimes it still finds us. A satirical post on the importance of sorrow and God's promise of return.
- [Perfect](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/06/25/perfect/) - It is summer, and I want to call it "perfect." But I don't. I wrongly believe that perfect is only perfect if it lasts. But the perfection of heaven is breaking out everywhere I look.
- [This Is Not My Calling (But He Calls)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/06/17/this-is-not-my-calling-but-he-calls/) - I am blessed with 4 young children, but I am not called to be a mother. I am not suited to this task. But does that matter? What does it mean to be called by God?
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves: Dreams in Alphabetical Order](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/06/14/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-dreams-in-alphabetical-order/) - I call it a peek at my bookshelves, but it's a peek at my soul. These are my dreams lined up in rows. Here are three book recommendations (memoir, gardening, old homes).
- [How To Grow The Garden Of Your Dreams ......  In Six Easy Steps](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/06/10/how-to-grow-the-garden-of-your-dreams-in-six-easy-steps/) - This is how to grow the garden of your dreams. It is easy. It is a life's work. It is also the free gift of God. Because God's glory may be found in a wild rambling rose.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/06/07/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-23/) - Some of my favorite picture books (and gardening books) are by Tasha Tudor. Here is another peak at my farmhouse bookshelves.
- [The Sound of Our Waiting](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/06/05/the-sound-of-our-waiting/) - It is Pentecost, and I wonder how they survived the empty days between Jesus leaving and the Comforter coming. And why did they have to wait? Why do we still wait?
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/05/31/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-22/) - I read less in spring, too distracted by the peonies dancing in the breeze. But here are 3 books I am spending time with this spring. Pruning, poetry, and prayer.
- [This is Now (This is Always)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/05/28/this-is-now-this-is-always/) - It is haying season in Lancaster County, and I can see something important about time. It is not linear as I thought. It is rhythmic. Eternity begins here. Now.
- [What Were You Made To Do?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/05/23/what-were-you-made-to-do/) - You were made for the impossible thing. You were made for the goal you cannot achieve. The high bar you can never reach. The thing that terrifies you the most.
- [Our Beautiful Hunger](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/05/06/our-beautiful-hunger/) - We are so afraid of our hunger. Desire is a dirty word. But we hunger in the image of a hungry Creator, a desiring God. What is your heart's desire?
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (and a Giveaway!)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/05/03/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-and-a-giveaway/) - Another peek at the books on my farmhouse bookshelves. This installment brought to you by spring and the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College.
- [Our Stories Come From Hunger](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/04/29/our-stories-come-from-hunger/) - From Lenten hunger to Easter plenty, this is a season for feasting. These are dreamless nights. These are days for storytelling but not story-making. Spring.
- [At the End of All Our Journeys](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/04/20/at-the-end-of-all-our-journeys/) - An Easter prayer and photographs of the second annual Maplehurst Easter egg hunt.
- [Why I Will Not Set My Mind on Things (Too Far) Above](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/04/08/why-i-will-not-set-my-mind-on-things-too-far-above/) - "Set your minds on things above," Scripture says. But I refuse to let my mind float higher than the highest branch of the world's most beautiful magnolia tree.
- [This Is The Beginning That Has No End](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/04/01/this-is-the-beginning-that-has-no-end/) - Yesterday, I saw the beginning of spring. I can picture the end of the season, too, but I am realizing the end I see is a lie. Because of Jesus we live in an endless spring.
- [Lent: A Love Story](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/03/25/lent-a-love-story/) - I thought I knew how the story began. With one word: sin. But I spent years crawling my way back to the true beginning. This story begins with Love.
- [Because We Have Not Yet Arrived at the End](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/03/18/because-we-have-not-yet-arrived-at-the-end/) - I want to write spring stories and happy endings. I am tired of this winter theme, but my home is still snow-covered. And Easter is a long way off. For Lent.
- [This Cruel Season of Promise](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/03/11/this-cruel-season-of-promise/) - These are the ugly hinge weeks between winter and spring. God is tugging me - and you - toward resurrection, but the road is a cruel one.
- [Seeking and Finding through Lent](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/03/04/seeking-and-finding-through-lent/) - Lent is upon us, but I am spent. I have no plan. But I am learning to listen to silence. If we believe we'll find God we will find him.
- [How Desire Led You Home](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/02/25/how-desire-led-you-home/) - They told you every longing was a misplaced desire for Jesus, so you closed your desiring heart up tight. But now you know: desire has led you home.
- [Remember This: There is Glory in the Dirt](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/02/19/remember-this-there-is-glory-in-the-dirt/) - I look at my farmhouse and see double: the spiritual and the temporal. But maybe there is no split. Maybe, as Gungor sings, there is glory in the dirt.
- [Carrots are the New Roses](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/02/14/carrots-are-the-new-roses/) - For Valentine's Day, I'm sharing a story of friendship. Also, we're sending a garden to South Africa. Really.
- [Days of Broken Glass](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/02/11/days-of-broken-glass/) - When the storm blew in, I learned that my idea of the Slow Life was highly dependent on hot coffee. But there is a still point in this turning world, and it will not leave us.
- [The Slow Life](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/02/04/the-slow-life/) - I make one hundred choices in a day, but I rarely make them without guilt. Shouldn't I be doing more? But I look to Jesus and remember there is time enough.
- [So Close to Home](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/01/29/so-close-to-home/) - It's a truism that home is where you come from. Home is where you began. I disagree. I think home is the place we're headed. Home is the destination.
- [Returning to God in Winter (Or, Why it Hurts to Rest)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/01/21/returning-to-god-in-winter-or-why-it-hurts-to-rest/) - A reflection on dreams, desires, and the ache that sends us back to God. Plus, gardening. Because a garden holds every answer.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Kitchen Edition)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/01/18/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-kitchen-edition/) - One of my very favorite things about my house? Bookshelves in the kitchen. Here are three favorite cookbooks right off those shelves.
- [This One Surprising Word](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/01/13/this-one-surprising-word/) - To return to God is to find wholeness, peace. It is finding a home and stretching out to meet the years. For our second year at Maplehurst, my word is more.
- [Surprised By ... Happiness](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/01/08/surprised-by-happiness/) - I pray ragged prayers, but I think they are my best. So full of holes, there is plenty of room for God to come and live in them. A story about prayer and happiness.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Snowstorm Edition)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2014/01/04/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-snowstorm-edition/) - Is your driveway buried in snow like mine? Here are 3 books perfect for wintery days. I recommend a novel, a mystery, and a picture book.
- [Christmas Day](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/25/christmas-day-2/) - A merry Christmas from Maplehurst.
- [Christmas Eve and Ordinary Joy](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/24/christmas-eve-and-ordinary-joy/) - I wish you an ordinary Christmas. One of friendship, special food, thoughtful gifts. One of candlelight, carols and a hand to hold or, if not, a very good book.
- [Advent (Day 23): His Imprisonment, Our Freedom](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/23/advent-day-23-his-imprisonment-our-freedom/) - I saved the best for last. Here is one of my favorite poems for Advent, Luci Shaw's "Made Flesh," because Jesus chose imprisonment in the womb for our freedom.
- [Advent (Day 22)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/22/advent-day-22-2/) - A prayer for this, the fourth Thursday of Advent. A prayer about a Christmas candle from one of my favorite books: A Child's First Book of Prayers.
- [Advent (Day 21): These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/21/advent-day-21-these-farmhouse-bookshelves/) - Here are three more books just right for the Advent / Christmas / Winter season. These are picture books, but they're best for older kids and adults.
- [Advent (Day 20): Emptiness in Heaven](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/20/advent-day-20-emptiness-in-heaven/) - I looked in those angel eyes and understood that our gain at the moment of incarnation was heaven's loss. The parent heart of God has known the pain of love.
- [Advent (Day 19)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/19/advent-day-19-2/) - People, look east! Love, our guest, will soon arrive. A hymn for this, the third Thursday of Advent.
- [Advent (Day 18): We Have Seen Fire in This Place](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/18/advent-day-18-we-have-seen-fire-in-this-place/) - Making space for God's presence is impossible, and my life with children is a mess. Also, it is a free gift. Because God came in fire, and he will always come.
- [Advent (Day 17): Something New Returns](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/17/advent-day-17-something-new-returns/) - My joy over this fourth baby is entirely new. This is no second-hand delight. What if Christmas brings us the yearly return of a joy that is always new?
- [Advent (Day 16): A Time for Joy](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/16/advent-day-16-a-time-for-joy/) - Time is undone. The light will soon be here. Can you feel it? Joy. A poem by Madeleine L'Engle for this third Monday of Advent.
- [Advent (Day 15)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/15/advent-day-15-2/) - We have turned a corner. Can you feel it? The word for this Advent week is rejoice, a word associated with Mary. Here is a prayer for the third Sunday.
- [Advent (Day 14): These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/14/advent-day-14-these-farmhouse-bookshelves/) - Three more recommendations for your Advent / Christmas / Winter reading pleasure. Here are L'Engle, Toot and Puddle, Santa Claus, and baby Jesus.
- [Advent (Day 10): Let Us Deck These Halls With Empty Space](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/10/advent-day-10-let-us-deck-these-halls-with-empty-space/) - Our world has put on glitter, but I sit with empty corners. I hear an echo in the emptiness, and it frightens me. Will I know this King when he finally comes?
- [Advent (Day 12): Hymn for a Turning World](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/12/advent-day-12-hymn-for-a-turning-world/) - This advent hymn is becoming a favorite. It makes me want to cry and shout. This is Mary's song for a turning world. By Rory Cooney.
- [Advent (Day 9)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/09/advent-day-9-2/) - Incredible how an old form like the sonnet can open our eyes to all that is New. Here is a poem for the second Monday of Advent, "O Emmanuel" by Malcolm Guite in Sounding the Seasons.
- [Advent (Day 8)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/08/advent-day-8-2/) - The word for this second week of Advent is prepare. Let the master wash and clothe you. We've been invited to a feast. A prayer for the second Sunday.
- [Advent (Day 7): These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/07/advent-day-7-these-farmhouse-bookshelves/) - Saturdays here are reserved for a peek at my farmhouse bookshelves. These are book recommendations with Advent, Christmas, and winter in mind.
- [Advent (Day 4): O These Many Holy Nights](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/04/advent-day-4-o-these-many-holy-nights/) - "The weary world rejoices ..." Or, does it? How do we go on living and loving when we have everything to lose? An advent reflection based on O Holy Night.
- [Advent (Day 5)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/05/advent-day-5-2/) - A hymn for Advent, by Charles Wesley. Because God became dust for us.
- [Advent (Day 3)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/03/advent-day-3-2/) - I am done with sifting blessings from burdens. I am saying thank you for all because our God did not despise the dirt. He wrapped himself in dust, and he is near.
- [Advent (Day 2)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/02/advent-day-2-2/) - A poem for the first Monday of Advent. A sonnet by Henry Vaughan. Because God meets us in the dust and in the dirt.
- [Advent (Day 1)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/12/01/advent-day-1-2/) - A prayer for the first Sunday of Advent. Because this is a beginning, and we stand before an open door.
- [Advent: Can You Feel the World Turning?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/11/30/advent-can-you-feel-the-world-turning/) - Advent is a season of quiet waiting, but this is quietness like tremors before an earthquake. Will you join me on this journey? Shall we greet the dawn together?
- [These Ordinary, Impossible Dreams](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/11/15/these-ordinary-impossible-dreams/) - My daughter dreams big. I do not. Who is the wise one, who is the fool? Standing in this museum, I know that ordinary life is an extraordinary miracle.
- [Just Beyond the Bridge](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/11/04/just-beyond-the-bridge/) - I live in a place made for ghost stories. This is my own version: a story about the nearness of the dead, a story about a great cloud of witnesses.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/11/02/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-21/) - In Autumn I hoard books like a squirrel with her nuts. Here are 3 recommendations to pad your winter reading list. A memoir, poetry, and a board book (really).
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/10/26/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-20/) - This is a post in praise of second-hand books. I am devoted to the dusty corners where old books wait. And this is why: 3 new book recommendations.
- [Looking Over My Shoulder (a Continuation)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/10/22/looking-over-my-shoulder-a-continuation/) - The dreaming life requires us to give up some dreams. But those dreams can never be forgotten. Looking behind and remembering, will we be punished like Lot's wife?
- [Playing With Fire (Or, Learning to Listen)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/10/21/playing-with-fire-or-learning-to-listen/) - Desire is a flame. Afraid of being burned, we push it aside, we run away, but we forget how much we need that life-giving warmth. Our soul's language is desire.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/10/19/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-19/) - Too many books? You say you'll never find time for them? I think we both know what truly frightens us: time to read and no good book at hand. Here are three.
- [I Have Written No Essay Today](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/10/14/i-have-written-no-essay-today/) - And this is unfortunate. Today's essay was meant for the Living the Story column at BibleDude. But could our blank pages have stories to tell?
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/10/12/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-18/) - Another peek at my bookshelves: a memoir of faith and motherhood, Psalms for children, and a book I love so much I hesitate even to recommend it.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/10/05/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-17/) - More recommendations from my summer of reading. Here are a novel, a children's book for the whole family, and, my favorite, a book of poetry for worshipers.
- [For Unbelief, God, I Give You Thanks](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/10/01/for-unbelief-god-i-give-you-thanks/) - I remember the day I stopped believing, and I thank God for leading me to that place. A meditation on doubt and faith and God's great love for us.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/09/28/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-16/) - For my summer vacation, I Read Some Books. Here is the return of my Saturday series, another glimpse at my farmhouse bookshelves.
- [The First Gift Was Desire](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/09/20/the-first-gift-was-desire/) - I am trying to tell the story of my baby girl's first year. She is a longing fulfilled. However, this story does not begin with longing but with its absence.
- [This is Rubber Meeting Road](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/09/05/this-is-rubber-meeting-road/) - Our worst day may be the answer to our best prayer. A few words for my son at the start of a new school year.
- [How I Ran Out of Dreams and Found Myself Behind the Wheel of a Pickup Truck](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/08/29/how-i-ran-out-of-dreams-and-found-myself-behind-the-wheel-of-a-pickup-truck/) - I thought my supply of dreams was bottomless. Like Mary Poppins and her carpet bag. But I was wrong. Better dreams are God-given, God-breathed.
- [The Wanderer's Return](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/08/15/the-wanderers-return/) - The first year is a surprise. The second is a return. This is an anniversary. It is also a new beginning.
- [On the Far Side of Fear](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/08/05/on-the-far-side-of-fear/) - The week was beautiful, but I don't think we earned it by handling our fears well. This is the good life available to us in the valley of the shadow of death.
- [No Strings Attached](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/24/no-strings-attached/)
- [Because You Are My Best Birthday Gift](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/06/22/because-you-are-my-best-birthday-gift/) - I will probably remind you two or three times that it is also my birthday. But you are seven, and I do not mind. You are the best birthday gift I have ever been given.
- [Eating His Words](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/06/19/eating-his-words/) - I thought metaphor helped me see the world more clearly, but I used it to distance myself from God's promises. Now I am eating his words. Literally.
- [All the Missing Pieces](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/05/29/all-the-missing-pieces/) - Some have said it's wrong to look to people to fill in the cracks and empty spaces of our lives. They have said God or Jesus fills those places. I think they may be wrong.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/05/25/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-15/) - Three books for your summer reading: a new novel, a beloved picture book, and a long-forgotten collection of short stories.
- [Acquainted With Grief](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/05/21/acquainted-with-grief/) - We wake again to the most terrible news. Our questions are old, but they are more insistent than ever: Why? Where were you?
- [Lives of Sun and Shadow](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/05/15/lives-of-sun-and-shadow/) - Our lives - even on the good days - are edged with shadow. Dogwood trees thrive in those shadows, but I refuse to make them an object lesson.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/05/11/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-14/) - Some of my favorite books are all about books (and bookstores and libraries). Here are three.
- [The Surprise of Coming Home](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/05/08/the-surprise-of-coming-home/) - I thought home meant familiar and comfortable. I am discovering that home is the place where our eyes stay wide-awake with wonder. Home is for good surprises.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/05/04/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-13/) - This Saturday, I bring you books for mothers. A cookbook, a gift book that would actually make a great gift, and the only parenting book I ever recommend.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/26/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-4/) - I thought sharing books would be fun. Now I think it may be sacred. Here are the memoirs you must read.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Birthday Boy Edition)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/04/27/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-birthday-boy-edition/) - Today, he turns four. My beautiful boy. These book recommendations are all little-boy approved. They are some of my favorites for littles and their grownups.
- [Joy Does Come in the Morning](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/04/24/joy-does-come-in-the-morning/) - The world will keep on falling apart, and our optimism in the face of that fact may be a kind of blindness. But the falling apart is not the only thing.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/04/20/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-12/) - This is a gardener's favorite time of year. Whether you're an armchair gardener or have dirt under your nails, here are three books for the season.
- [The Season of Singing Has Come](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/04/17/the-season-of-singing-has-come/) - I was twenty-one when I first glimpsed Spring. I've been chasing it ever since. Chasing it - waiting for it - and now rejoicing in it.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/04/13/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-11/) - I didn't read many fairy tales as a child. I think I'm making up for it now. Here are my favorite fairy tales for grownups.
- [Blessed: A Guest Post](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/04/09/blessed-a-guest-post/) - My daughter says she's glad we're not poor. I agree. But how do I teach her about blessing? A guest post for J.R. Goudeau's Love Is What You Do.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/04/06/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-10/) - My comfort reads are all mysteries. Here are three favorites.
- [These Last Days](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/03/22/these-last-days/) - These last awe-full days of Lent are upon us. I don't want to miss any of it (plus a pinnable image for you).
- [Today is the Day for a Miracle](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/03/19/today-is-the-day-for-a-miracle/) - This is the day for a miracle. The dark, cold day. The day when all you see is muddy and broken. The day seedlings emerge is not the day for hope. That day came and went.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/03/16/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-9/) - These are books like old friends and crocheted afghans and steamy cups of tea. These are the classics we actually want to read (and read again).
- [From Where I Stand Between Winter and Spring](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/03/13/from-where-i-stand-between-winter-and-spring/) - The cold has sunk deep into my bones, and I no longer believe in spring. But we aren't waiting for resurrection. It's already here.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/03/09/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-8/) - We don't read poetry any longer, do we? Shame on us. I'm recommitting myself to poetry. Will you join me? Here are three to start with.
- [This is How to Listen, This is How to Hear](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/03/06/this-is-how-to-listen-this-is-how-to-hear/) - It used to sound crazy. I'd never heard God's voice. What makes you special? Now I'm the crazy one, and this is how it happened. How I heard God speak.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/03/02/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-7/) - More than plot, more than language, I care about characters. Here are three novels with some of my favorite characters.
- [The Good News: This is Only the Beginning](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/02/26/the-good-news-this-is-only-the-beginning/) - I'm afraid too many of us believe the wild poetry of Revelation has not yet happened. That we are still waiting. Here is the Good News: it is finished.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/02/23/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-6/) - This week's book selections are all about food. Because food is my love language. Here are a cookbook, a memoir, and something between the two.
- [God's Love and an Old Green Sofa](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/02/19/gods-love-and-an-old-green-sofa/) - I don't believe in the God of Parking Spaces. A God who makes me comfortable with small favors. I do believe in the God who gave me a sofa for my 35th birthday.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/02/16/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-5/) - Another Saturday, another peak at my farmhouse bookshelves. This week: books I should hate but don't! Two novels and a funny memoir.
- [Why We Keep Going to Church](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/02/12/why-we-keep-going-to-church/) - Our ideas about church fit into one neat box. But boxes don't travel well, and we were wanderers.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves: Snow Day](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/02/09/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-snow-day/) - The days may be brighter, but they are colder too, Here are books that make the most of winter. A travel memoir, a picture book, and a must-read classic short story.
- [Why You Should Let Go of Your Dream](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/02/06/why-you-should-let-go-of-your-dream/) - I've discovered that knowing when to let go of your dream is a necessary part of the dreaming life.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Downton Abbey Edition!)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/02/02/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-downton-abbey-edition/) - This week's book recommendations are brought to you by Downton Abbey. We have an Irish novel, manor house mice, and a ghost story.
- [This Cloak of Invisibility: A Guest Post](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/30/this-cloak-of-invisibility-a-guest-post/) - We need safe places in which to talk about hard things. At Jumping Tandem, Deidra Riggs has created a safe place. I am sharing my story there today.
- [This is Now](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/23/this-is-now/) - When I tell myself "this is now," I stop worrying about what's next, and I receive the good gift of this present moment. Life, it turns out, is not a crisis.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/19/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-3/) - Chickens, unicorns, and babies! Three more books I think you might like. This is the latest installment in my Saturday series: These Farmhouse Bookshelves.
- [My Daughter, Dr. Seuss, and the Good News About Hell](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/15/my-daughter-dr-seuss-and-the-good-news-about-hell/) - I imagined myself a Christian unconcerned with guarding the borders of who's in and who's out, but I left a theological hole my daughter filled in for herself.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/05/these-farmhouse-bookshelves/) - The first in a new series of Saturday posts. I'm giving you a glimpse of my bookshelves. Here are three books I think you should read.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/12/these-farmhouse-bookshelves-2/) - Let's take another peak at my bookshelves, shall we? Here are a book for mothers, a book for doubters, and a book for all book-lovers.
- [Why I No Longer Pray My Son Becomes a Leader](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/09/why-i-no-longer-pray-my-son-becomes-a-leader/) - I've struggled to know how to pray for my boys. Can I pray Jesus's kneeling-in-the-dirt and washing feet way of life for them? My son is teaching me how.
- [Because the Ordinary is a Gift](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/07/because-the-ordinary-is-a-gift/) - We move, as a church, toward Ordinary Time. My days are ordinary. Are these days outside the Story?
- [This One Word: Return](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/03/this-one-word-return/) - I have been hearing this whisper for months but now it is a shout: "Return!" God has given me this word for the year, because in him is my beginning and my end.
- [Your Favorite Posts and a Thank You](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2013/01/01/your-favorite-posts-and-a-thank-you/) - I don't love cooking, but I love feeding people. I often dread writing, but I love sharing stories with you. Let's look back at a few of your favorites.
- [Because Our Children Are Vulnerable](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/31/because-our-children-are-vulnerable/) - She looked like a small bird, and all I could think is how do we keep them safe? My only weapon is an old, old prayer.
- [The Gifts of a Dying Year](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/28/the-gifts-of-a-dying-year/) - Now is the time for saying goodbye, for looking back, for remembering. This year is dying, but it has left me with these great gifts.
- [Advent 2012 (Third Friday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/21/advent-2012-third-friday/) - I want to sing of snow and silent nights, but I can't forget that Mary sang of justice. Is it possible that I am not grieved enough? Not angry enough?
- [Advent 2012 (Third Thursday) A Guest Post](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/20/advent-2012-third-thursday-a-guest-post/) - Amy Lepine Peterson shares these powerful reflections on advent, motherhood, and darkness.
- [Advent 2012 (Christmas Day)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/25/advent-2012-christmas-day/) - Merry Christmas, my friends.
- [Advent 2012 (Christmas Eve)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/24/advent-2012-christmas-eve/) - He is coming soon. It is his promise.
- [Advent 2012 (Fourth Sunday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/23/advent-2012-fourth-sunday/) - A prayer and an image for the fourth Sunday of Advent: "God, set us free."
- [Advent 2012 (Third Saturday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/22/advent-2012-third-saturday/) - "Christmas Bells": a poem and a carol. These are heartbreaking, hopeful words.
- [Advent 2012 (Third Wednesday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/19/advent-2012-third-wednesday/) - Advent is meant to include repentance. Until this nightmare, I'd avoided thinking about it. A guest post for Amy Lepine Peterson.
- [Advent 2012 (Third Monday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/17/advent-2012-third-monday/) - The weight of grief is too heavy, and I have no poem for you today. I do have a song, a song and a question: is love alive?
- [Advent 2012 (Third Sunday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/16/advent-2012-third-sunday/) - A prayer for the third Sunday of Advent. The only prayer I seem capable of praying when the world goes dark.
- [Advent 2012 (Second Saturday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/15/advent-2012-second-saturday/) - An advent hymn for the second Saturday.
- [Advent 2012 (Second Friday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/14/advent-2012-second-friday/) - When the wait seems to go on too long, when prayer goes unanswered ... remember this. A quotation for the second Friday of Advent.
- [Advent 2012 (Second Thursday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/13/advent-2012-second-thursday/) - It is St. Lucia's Day. On these dark days it is sometimes true that the only way to find light for the road ahead is to look back and remember.
- [Advent 2012 (Second Tuesday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/11/advent-2012-second-tuesday/) - We are fast approaching the darkest time of the year, and I am loving it. Why do I feel at home in "bleak midwinter"? Because I love a good story.
- [Advent 2012 (Second Monday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/10/advent-2012-second-monday/) - Because darkness is a gift. A poem by Luci Shaw.
- [Advent 2012 (Second Sunday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/09/advent-2012-second-sunday/) - This is one of my favorite prayers from the book Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. This is a good one year-round, but I love it especially for this season.
- [Advent 2012 (First Saturday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/08/advent-2012-first-saturday/) - My favorite Christmas hymn, and a favorite photo. This is what it looks like to watch, to wait.
- [Advent 2012 (First Friday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/07/advent-2012-first-friday/) - A quotation for you and an encouragement to do less, to be still.
- [Advent 2012 (First Thursday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/06/advent-2012-first-thursday/) - We are still waiting for snow, and I am tempted to forget the waiting. Waiting hurts. Won't the end result be the same if I choose to numb my hope and simply pass time?
- [Advent 2012 (First Wednesday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/05/advent-2012-first-wednesday/) - We sat around our advent wreath on Sunday. It was too loud and chaotic and there may have been tears. But it was sort of beautiful, too.
- [Advent 2012 (First Tuesday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/04/advent-2012-first-tuesday/) - A rainbow and a full moon. I've heard the voice of God in signs like those but not tonight.
- [Advent 2012 (First Monday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/03/advent-2012-first-monday/) - A poem for the first Monday of Advent. A poem to remind us that we are seen. We are found.
- [Advent 2012 (First Sunday)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/12/02/advent-2012-first-sunday/) - Flowers reaching for the light, and a prayer for the first Sunday of Advent.
- [Advent 2012 (When Waiting is Prayer)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/11/27/advent-2012-when-waiting-is-prayer/) - Like last year, I will share this advent with you. One month of peering into the darkness and listening to the silence so that our waiting becomes prayer.
- [A Poem For Your Monday (And a Month of Advent Songs)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/11/26/a-poem-for-your-monday-and-a-month-of-advent-songs/) - Such a year it has been. Such a year. Now it is a season for singing, and, like Mary after the angel's visit, I will sing my Advent songs.
- [A Poem For Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/11/19/a-poem-for-your-monday-11/) - I often resent time's passing, but this poem reminds me that the shifting seasons give more than they take away.
- [A Poem For Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/11/12/a-poem-for-your-monday-10/) - A poem for these darker, shorter days.
- [Bricks, Trees, and the Kingdom of God](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/11/08/bricks-trees-and-the-kingdom-of-god/) - Houses, gardens, and the "stuff" of our daily lives. Do they matter? Do they last? Yes, they too can be made new.
- [A Poem For Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/11/05/a-poem-for-your-monday-9/) - A lesson learned in the storm and a poem by John Leax.
- [To Practice Hope](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/11/01/to-practice-hope/) - I am newly determined to practice hope. I will expect to be cared for. Does the Lord of the storm love me any less than I love this baby girl?
- [A Poem For Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/10/22/a-poem-for-your-monday-8/) - I'm reviving a tradition with this gem from one of my favorite poets, Luci Shaw.
- [Say It With Me](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/10/19/say-it-with-me/) - After a season of drought, my life today is all excess. And it's hard, and it's beautiful, and I can only pray these three words.
- [Home Is ... This Moment Right Now](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/10/12/home-is-this-moment-right-now/) - I've said that I refuse to live in the moment. I stand by that. And yet, sometimes the present moment is the only place to feel at home.
- [Having Reached the End of Myself](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/09/27/having-reached-the-end-of-myself/) - We don't broadcast our weaknesses or failures on social media. Our shameful moments never show up on facebook. Maybe they should.
- [And Then We Were Six](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/09/19/and-then-we-were-six/) - About the night she was born: we were not alone.
- [Tunnel Vision](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/09/05/tunnel-vision/) - I have late pregnancy tunnel vision. This is why I can't tell you the story of the sunflowers, but, I promise, it's just a temporary affliction.
- [A Season for Dying (A Season for Gratitude)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/08/27/a-season-for-dying-a-season-for-gratitude/) - Our new home is full of beauty, but every breath I've taken here has hurt. Why this serpent in my Eden?
- [On Small Beginnings](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/08/09/on-small-beginnings/) - It's a big dream, and I thought it would start with lightning bolts. Thunder. But, it doesn't. It begins small. We are tired, but we have seen God's joy.
- [On Saying Goodbye (on Saying Thank You)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/07/27/on-saying-goodbye-on-saying-thank-you/) - When you leave the desert do you kick the dust from your feet? Look ahead and forget what lies behind? I can't say yes. Looking back I see something beautiful.
- [Our Best Dreams](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/07/19/our-best-dreams/) - We cannot live without dreams. They are as necessary as bread. But where do we find them? And does Jesus care about our dreams?
- [How You Know You've Come Home](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/07/11/how-you-know-youve-come-home/) - How does God say, "Welcome home?" With a long driveway, the whispered word "jubilee," and a bakery that is completely gluten-free.
- [With Our Faces Turned Towards Home](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/06/28/with-our-faces-turned-towards-home/) - By faith, we are following. We don't know exactly where we are headed, but we know that it is good. We are going home.
- [How More is Lost and More is Given](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/06/22/how-more-is-lost-and-more-is-given/) - It's been twenty years. Which makes the loss greater, even if it is farther away in time. It also means that so much has been given.
- [Don't Stop Believin'](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/06/14/dont-stop-believin/) - I don't usually find myself moved to tears by early 80s rock anthems, but these weren't tears of misery. They were tears of gratitude. Things are changing.
- [Revisiting the Summer List](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/06/04/revisiting-the-summer-list/) - June is here, and it's time to revisit the Summer List. It's one of my favorite traditions, but it didn't travel well when we made our move from Chicago.
- [Why We Wait](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/05/31/why-we-wait/) - Pentecost Sunday was days ago, but I still feel stuck in that room. Waiting. How did they endure those days between Jesus leaving and the Comforter coming?
- [Where to Find Rest](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/05/24/where-to-find-rest/) - The family vacation is over and now is the time for rest. But where to find it?
- [Sweet Days](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/05/17/sweet-days/) - Time for a little break ...
- [A Desert Story](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/05/10/a-desert-story/) - I love stories, but there's one story I can't escape. It's a story of living in between. I'm writing for my friend, Angie, today. Will you join me?
- [Because Sometimes We Need a Song to Remind Us of What's True](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/05/08/because-sometimes-we-need-a-song-to-remind-us-of-whats-true/) - I’m sure you have your own version of this story. A story of one song that represents something big: young love, say, or new parenthood, or one particular summer.
- [Book of Quotations: This Story is My Home](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/05/03/book-of-quotations-this-story-is-my-home/) - Faith is not saying, "I know this" and "I am sure of that." To have faith is to say, "This is the place where I live."
- [Why I'm Singing a Song That May Not Be True](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/04/30/why-im-singing-a-song-that-may-not-be-true/) - How do we find the balance between readiness and stillness? For me, it's come down to this song.
- [Because You are One Step Closer](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/04/27/because-you-are-one-step-closer/) - This is a birthday letter. This is a letter about prayer. Because sometimes prayer is like a river, and I have just fallen in.
- [To Run Toward the Desert](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/04/24/to-run-toward-the-desert/) - To follow God into the desert is to turn your back on ordinary life. To trade comfort for something harder and so much better.
- [How God Came, and I Nearly Missed It](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/04/20/how-god-came-and-i-nearly-missed-it/) - I waited in desperation, and I imagined God would come with fireworks. Instead, he came slowly, like a Shepherd, and he gave me a song to sing.
- [Why I Love the "Jesus of Prostitutes"](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/08/25/why-i-love-the-jesus-of-prostitutes/) - Singing, Mat Kearney's new song, I consider why it is that I love the "Jesus of prostitutes." Ours is a God who sees.
- [Religion, Relationship, and Resurrection Sunday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/04/12/religion-relationship-and-resurrection-sunday/) - I grew up hearing, "It's not a religion but a relationship." This may be true, but it is woefully incomplete. Religion: the outward expression of an inner joy.
- [From Chaos to Shalom](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/04/06/from-chaos-to-shalom/) - I thought it would be hard to fit Good Friday into Spring Break. Difficult to clear space for the cross in a week devoted to beach and pool. I was wrong.
- [Holy Week in the Dollhouse](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/04/04/holy-week-in-the-dollhouse/) - It's Holy Week. It's also, in our home, Spring Break. Which means there are fewer quiet prayers, more picnics at the park. Holiness is everywhere.
- [India, Happiness, and a Bag Overflowing](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/03/27/india-happiness-and-a-bag-overflowing/) - Is Jesus enough, even when the darkness remains dark and happiness seems unimaginable? I think we should all be asking this question.
- [Why I (Mostly) Refuse to Live in the Moment](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/03/22/why-i-mostly-refuse-to-live-in-the-moment/) - The goal of living in the moment has lately become sacred. Christian spirituality shapes a different view: our lives as journeys, our lives as stories.
- [Everyday Pain, Everyday Joy](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/03/19/everyday-pain-everyday-joy/) - When Jesus said to pick up our crosses and follow, I don’t think he meant us to suffer in silence. To just shut up about it already! I think even our pain is a part of the story.
- [When Our "No" Meets God's "Yes"](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/03/17/when-our-no-meets-gods-yes/) - God’s gifts are not always reasonable. I’m beginning to suspect that God is wildly unreasonable. Yet we choose comfort while God longs to give us more.
- [A New Moon for a Dark Season](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/03/08/a-new-moon-for-a-dark-season/) - Things have been a little quiet around here as I find myself in waiting mode this Lent. It's reminded me of one of my first blog posts: New Moon.
- [When Lent Comes Early (and Stays Late)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/02/28/when-lent-comes-early-and-stays-late/) - I've been led through a Lenten wilderness before the calendar said it was time. What now? I will rest in the shadow of the cross. And wait.
- [In Praise of Folly](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/02/21/in-praise-of-folly/) - I've been dreaming of all that is wonderful and nonessential. It is Folly, but it has more to do with beauty than foolishness. It has more to do with Life.
- [It is Dark, But You Are Not Alone](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/02/14/it-is-dark-but-you-are-not-alone/) - "Alone in darkness." Someone typed those words into their search engine, and it led them to my blog. I don't know that they found anything to help. This is for them.
- [For the Love of (Food) Books](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/02/09/for-the-love-of-food-books/) - A significant sub-genre in the large category of "Books I Have Loved" is Food Books. Food memoir. Cookbook. I am never sated.
- [Can Poverty Be Taught?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/02/02/can-poverty-be-taught/) - The middle child says he's glad we're not poor. I agree, but then I wonder. There are lots of ways to be poor. Should I be teaching a few of those?
- [Death by Pine Tree](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/01/26/death-by-pine-tree/) - The trees in northern Florida are out to get me. But, I'm holding tight to God's promises and waiting (also, checking pollen.com).
- [Wisdom and Innocence](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/01/19/wisdom-and-innocence/) - With much wisdom comes much sorrow. How do we keep from sinking beneath the weight of this treasure? By following the way that is reckless and wide-awake.
- [What Does it Feel Like to be Healed?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/01/17/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-healed/) - I have prayed for symptoms to disappear, but deep within I have suspected that my prayers were too narrow. Is true healing something more?
- [Book of Quotations: Notes from a Sickbed](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/01/13/book-of-quotations-notes-from-a-sickbed/) - When we are sick, the world shrinks. This is life condensed. Which means there is more to notice in a minute of this than in an hour of my usual busyness.
- [What Happens Next?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/01/10/what-happens-next/) - My daughter wants to know what happens after the stable and the star, after the angels and the shepherds. Is it only the hum-drum middle? Is it something more?
- [Home At Last](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2012/01/04/home-at-last/) - Some say that the ache for Home is all there is. At least for now. At least on earth. I can't agree. Home is too good. Too necessary.
- [A New Year](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/31/a-new-year/) - In a year, I have traveled from emptiness to expectation. The view now is of something good just over the horizon, and, so, I pray it in.
- [Advent (Day 26)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/22/advent-day-26/) - Advent is bittersweet. "You will have trouble," Jesus said. But, Christmas? Then we taste the sweetness of promises fulfilled. Of prayers answers.
- [Advent (Day 25)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/21/advent-day-25/) - "Do not be afraid." Those words echo across the centuries from the day of Jesus's birth. How would you live if you knew there was no need ever to be afraid?
- [Christmas Day](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/25/christmas-day/) - Glory to God in the highest. Merry Christmas, friends.
- [Advent (Day 28) Christmas Eve](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/24/advent-day-28-christmas-eve/) - "O Holy Night," lyrics and a photograph for Christmas Eve.
- [Advent (Day 27)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/23/advent-day-27/) - Lift up your heads, our King of Glory comes!
- [Advent (Day 24)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/20/advent-day-24/) - In our family, we celebrate Christmas with a birthday cake, but it isn't for the baby Jesus. It's for another birthday boy.
- [Advent (Day 23)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/19/advent-day-23/) - A poem for this last Monday of Advent. Who else but Gerard Manley Hopkins to wake us up, to dazzle us, and to fill us with expectation?
- [Advent (Day 22)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/18/advent-day-22/) - A prayer and a photo for the fourth Sunday of Advent: play of lights in the cathedral.
- [Advent (Day 21)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/17/advent-day-21/) - An image and an Advent hymn: O Come O Come Emmanuel.
- [Advent (Day 20)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/16/advent-day-20/) - Waiting is open-ended because hope is open-ended. A favorite quotation from a favorite writer, Henri Nouwen.
- [Advent (Day 19)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/15/advent-day-19/) - When my life is in waiting mode, I sometimes wish I could go to bed and sleep for a few months. Oblivion seems so much more appealing than the hard, day-to-day of waiting.
- [Advent (Day 18)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/14/advent-day-18/) - We wait and imagine what it will look like when God fulfills his promise. Then we are surprised. To choose God's dream over our own is no sacricice.
- [Advent (Day 17)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/13/advent-day-17/) - It is St. Lucia's Day. When the day is short and the night is long, the only way to see ahead is to look back and remember.
- [Advent (Day 16)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/12/advent-day-16/) - A poem from Louise Glück for this third Monday of Advent. Because winter has meaning for us.
- [Advent (Day 15)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/11/advent-day-15/) - A prayer for the third Sunday of Advent.
- [Advent (Day 14)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/10/advent-day-14/) - An image and an Advent hymn.
- [Advent (Day 13)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/09/advent-day-13/) - For some, Advent seems to last for years. We are caught in the perpetual coming but not yet here. Always Advent, never Christmas.
- [Advent (Day 12)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/08/advent-day-12/) - I love this book. I love this quotation. What is Advent all about? Remembering that we live on a visited planet.
- [Advent (Day 11)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/07/advent-day-11/) - Is Advent a season for quiet reflection? Or, as my children seem to think, a time for high-volume renditions of Jingle Bells? Alas, the Bible isn't on my side.
- [Advent (Day 10)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/06/advent-day-10/) - What does God's silence signify? Emptiness? Nothingness? Or, perhaps, a world within a world? Anna and Simeon knew that God's silence was anything but empty.
- [Advent (Day 9)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/05/advent-day-9/) - A poem from Madeleine L'Engle on this second Monday of Advent. She was one who dared to imagine yet still dared to pray.
- [Advent (Day 8)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/04/advent-day-8/) - A prayer and an image for this second Sunday of Advent.
- [Advent (Day 7)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/03/advent-day-7/) - An image and a hymn: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.
- [Advent (Day 6)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/02/advent-day-6/) - I live in the “Sunshine State.” This is no mere tourist slogan, I assure you. Do you know what it is to long for darkness?
- [Advent (Day 5)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/12/01/advent-day-5/) - Perhaps the most difficult thing about darkness is that it tells us we are alone. Darkness, it lies. As Christians, we do not wait alone.
- [Advent (Day 4)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/30/advent-day-4/) - The Bible is a centuries-long conversation with God about the things of God, but some of its most powerful voices have spoken to us out of darkness.
- [Advent (Day 3)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/29/advent-day-3/) - What is the point of darkness? If light is good and life-giving, I like to remember that it is most beautiful when it appears in darkness.
- [Advent (Day 2)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/28/advent-day-2/) - A poem for you on this first Monday of Advent: T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding." Because Advent is spring in midwinter.
- [Advent (Day 1)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/27/advent-day-1/) - A prayer and an image for the first Sunday of Advent.
- [Advent (a Preface)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/25/advent-a-preface/) - I don’t want to frame this season with Black Friday shopping and day-after-Christmas gift returns. On Sunday, I begin posting an advent walk.
- [A Poem for Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/21/a-poem-for-your-monday-7/) - Soon we take our seats around the table in order to say, "Thank you." Gerard Manley Hopkins shows us how.
- [The Jesus of Prostitutes and the Purity Ball](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/17/the-jesus-of-prostitutes-and-the-purity-ball/) - I want my daughter to know that in Jesus's kingdom even a prostitute can be the belle of the Purity Ball.
- [The Language of a Gift](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/16/the-language-of-a-gift/) - Which is best? To receive the exact gift we've asked for or to be surprised by the lovely yet unexpected? Both are good, but some gifts speak our language.
- [A Poem for Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/14/a-poem-for-your-monday-6/) - A poem in celebration of blues and greens and arguments that can't be proven.
- [We Are a Beloved Community](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/10/we-are-a-beloved-community/) - Another visit to the E.R., but now I know that the heavy burden of love I feel for my son is shared. It has never been mine to bear alone.
- [On Being an Arm-chair Girl in a Motor-boat World](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/08/on-being-an-arm-chair-girl-in-a-motor-boat-world/) - I recently bought a new reading chair. It isn't all that different from a boat. Though, I insist, it is very, very different from a jet-ski.
- [A Poem for Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/07/a-poem-for-your-monday-5/) - This poem is well suited to November's darker days. Technically, "Let Evening Come" is a pastoral, but, to me, it always reads more like prayer.
- [Jesus, Jesus, Jesus](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/04/jesus-jesus-jesus/) - How is that for a title? We make this believing life about so many things (some good, some less so), but it was, is, and always will be only about Him. Jesus.
- [The Magician's Son](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/11/02/the-magicians-son/) - Candy Fairy, Pacifier Fairy, Tooth Fairy: ours is a busy crossroads for magical creatures. I hope my children learn that there is more (not less) than meets the eye.
- [A Poem for Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/31/a-poem-for-your-monday-4/) - A poem on rest, by George Herbert. I first discovered Herbert in graduate school. Who says there's little Jesus in higher education?
- [On Living Without](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/28/on-living-without/) - I believe in stories rather than advice. This is my story: there is a gift to be had in emptiness and barrenness. Winter is hard, but it is good.
- [Why Life Shared is Life Abundant](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/25/why-life-shared-is-life-abundant/) - To live in community is to be inconvenienced, but it is also to truly live. It is being poured out again and again in order to be filled again and again.
- [Home Again, but Not Really](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/19/home-again-but-not-really/) - I will soon be back in Chicago. It was a temporary home, but it still feels like home. That is God's grace: a home in exile. Permission to live while we wait.
- [A Poem (and a Memory) for Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/24/a-poem-and-a-memory-for-your-monday/) - I'm in Chicago, remembering with my feet as I walk familiar slate sidewalks. One particular vision has returned to me, and I share it with you in this poem.
- [A Poem For Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/17/a-poem-for-your-monday-3/) - In my ideal Christian bookstore, the Jesus knick-knacks and Amish romances would be pushed aside. In their place, you'd find the collected poems of Czeslaw Milosz.
- [True Stories and Our Storyteller](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/13/true-stories-and-our-storyteller/) - My daughter says that Harry Potter isn't real. I sigh, so relieved that she hasn't said "true." Because "real" and "true"? Those words mean very different things.
- [For the Tired Ones](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/11/for-the-tired-ones/) - Each day has its own trouble, especially for tired parents. But worse than these particular troubles is our despair when we believe that morning will never come.
- [A Poem for Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/10/a-poem-for-your-monday-2/) - This is the first (and best) of the refrigerator poetry. "This Is Just To Say" reminds me that the line between the everyday and art is sometimes very slight.
- [Sacred Idleness](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/07/sacred-idleness/) - I seem to have few words left here at the end of the week. Perhaps it's only laziness. Though, like George MacDonald, I prefer to call it "sacred idleness."
- [Waiting for a Love That Will Not Break my Heart](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/04/waiting-for-a-love-that-will-not-break-my-heart/) - I read so many books when I was pregnant with my first. Not one told me how much it would hurt. Childbirth, yes. But none spoke of how much it hurts to love a child.
- [A Song For Your Monday: Gungor's "The Fall"](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/10/03/a-song-for-your-monday-gungors-the-fall/) - Gungor's new album tells a gorgeous, heart-breaking story. It reminds me that I sometimes do not know if I am waiting on God, or if God is waiting on me.
- [On Waiting](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/01/on-waiting/) - Here, in Florida, we are in-between. We are waiting, yet trying to find within the temporary some sense of at-home-ness. At times, I despair.
- [Book of Quotations: Home](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/30/book-of-quotations-home/) - The French philosopher Bachelard writes that "the house allows one to dream in peace." My love of Home is God-given and good, but I am still asked to let it go.
- [Bless Her Heart](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/27/bless-her-heart/) - I can still hear my grandmother's voice: "Bless her heart," she used to say. It's a Southern thing. It's a grace thing.
- [A Poem for Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/26/a-poem-for-your-monday/) - A poem for daughters. A poem for those who have daughters.
- [In Praise of Weakness](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/23/in-praise-of-weakness/) - I see my weaknesses too clearly to ever say, "I am a good mother." But I'm okay with that. There is now less of me and much more of God. It's called Grace.
- [It's About Money, Except When It Isn't](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/21/its-about-money-except-when-it-isnt/) - I open a letter from our new Compassion child, and I am devastated. Now I know: sponsoring this boy is about money, and it's about so much more.
- [A Poem (And a Pretty Picture) for Your Monday](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/19/a-poem-and-a-pretty-picture-for-your-monday/) - I spent most of Saturday rearranging my books. I remembered (with shame) how long it had been since I opened a book of poetry. And so, a poem for you today.
- [Book of Quotations: Moonlight and the Memory of Pain](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/15/book-of-quotations-moonlight-and-the-memory-of-pain/) - George MacDonald writes words to remember. They remind me that to see my past through the mirror of memory may be to see it truthfully for the first time.
- [The Sweet Sound of "New"](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/13/the-sweet-sound-of-new/) - I'm a mess, the world's a mess, and we need Good News now. Is there good news from God that matters today?
- [Caught in Mid-Air on 9/11](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/09/caught-in-mid-air-on-911/) - When most people recall 9/11 they think of horrific, televised images. I see the view from a tiny, plexi-glass window. I hear the voice of our pilot.
- [To Make a Free Fall of Faith](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/06/to-make-a-free-fall-of-faith/) - Does God always catch us when we make a free fall of faith? If we find ourselves heart-bruised on the bottom of an empty pool, we have at least seen our hearts in flight.
- [On Boredom (Or, What I Did on My Summer Vacation)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/09/01/on-boredom-or-what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation/) - The Summer List was a success, but it didn't entirely chase away boredom. Is boredom merely a sign of privilege, or can it be something more? Can it be a gift?
- [Book of Quotations: Love Stoops](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/08/30/book-of-quotations-love-stoops/) - When does theology get in the way of knowing God's love? Christie considers a quotation from Ian Morgan Cron's recent memoir.
- [On Weathering the Storms of Motherhood](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/08/23/on-weathering-the-storms-of-motherhood/) - Christie writes that on its darkest days motherhood is not a test to be aced, not even a job to be well done, but a storm. The wise woman seeks shelter from the storm.
- [The View from Mt. Pisgah](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/08/18/the-view-from-mt-pisgah/) - In this post Christie considers promises and what they reveal about God's character.
- [For One Who Mourns](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/08/15/for-one-who-mourns/) - In this post Christie describes her daughter's emotional reaction to news of death. She writes that Jesus wept. Shouldn't we?
- [Greetings from the Land of Waterfalls, Glitter, and Unicorns](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/08/09/greetings-from-the-land-of-waterfalls-glitter-and-unicorns/) - In this post Christie describes her family's vacation as being in the land of waterfalls, glitter, and unicorns. She also thanks McLane Creative for the excellent new blog.
- [What, Then, is Prayer?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/08/05/what-then-is-prayer/) - In this post Christie writes that prayer is like a river whose source is God himself. It is always, already flowing. We need only jump in.
- [The Mystery at (or Secret of?) Lilac Inn](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/05/26/the-secret-of-or-mystery-at-lilac-inn/)
- [Art](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/15/art/)
- [The Only Thing I Pray My Children Grow Up to Know](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/08/03/the-only-thing-i-pray-my-children-grow-up-to-know/) - Christie explains why the only hope she has for her children is that they know deep down how much God loves them. She knows she is praying that they hurt.
- [Why Staying in the Moment Isn't Always Best (Or, Why Southern Summers are a lot Like Midwestern Winters)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/08/01/why-staying-in-the-moment-isnt-always-best-or-why-southern-summers-are-a-lot-like-midwestern-winters/) - Christie describes the similarities between long southern summers spent indoors and long midwestern winters spent indoors. She defends longing for what's next by claiming that hope justifies longing.
- [A Sweet Tooth Reborn](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/29/a-sweet-tooth-reborn/) - Christie describes how losing sugar turned out to be no loss at all. Instead, she can now taste the full spectrum of sweet flavors God has created.
- [When Literal is Lifeless](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/22/when-literal-is-lifeless/)
- [An Empty Seat at Our Table](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/19/when-fear-has-a-seat-at-the-table/)
- [Book of Quotations: Why I Have Fewer Answers Now Than I Once Did](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/15/book-of-quotations-why-i-have-fewer-answers-now-than-i-once-did/)
- [There is a River](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/13/there-is-a-river/)
- [Stories](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/11/stories/)
- [Sacred Work](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/09/sacred-work/)
- [In Defense of Reading](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/06/in-defense-of-reading/)
- [Running](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/04/running/)
- [How Not Waiting Feels](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/07/01/how-not-waiting-feels/)
- [Ordinary Time](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/28/ordinary-time/)
- [Book of Quotations: Waking Up](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/27/book-of-quotations-waking-up/)
- [Fear and Love](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/21/fear-and-love/)
- [Doughnuts!](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/20/doughnuts/)
- [Prayers](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/17/prayers/)
- [Book of Quotations: Breath](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/13/book-of-quotations-breath/)
- [Summer List](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/09/summer-list/)
- [Fire and Rain](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/07/fire-and-rain/)
- [Photography](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/06/photography/)
- [Book of Quotations](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/06/book-of-quotations/)
- [New Moon](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/06/03/new-moon/)
- [Connect](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/05/30/connect/)
- [About](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/2011/05/25/about/)

## Pages

- [Christie Purifoy, A Spacious Place](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/)
- [A House To Call Home](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/a-house-to-call-home/)
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- [Start Here](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/start-here/)
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- [Seedtime and Harvest Book](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/seedtime-and-harvest-book/)
- [Home - 2023](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/home-2023/)
- [Home - 2021](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/home-2021/)
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- [About](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/about/)
- [Home - working](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/home-working/)
- [Seedtime and Harvest Freebies](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/seedtime-and-harvest-freebies/)
- [A Home In Bloom Book](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/a-home-in-bloom-book/)
- [Garden Maker Book](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/garden-maker-book/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Header” _builder_version=”4.10.3″ _module_preset=”default” background_image=”https://www.christiepurifoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Header.png” background_position=”top_center” custom_padding=”60px||60px||true|” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|off|off” _builder_version=”4.10.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|300|||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”44px” header_letter_spacing=”5px” header_line_height=”2em” animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”1200ms” animation_delay=”1000ms” global_colors_info=”{}”] CELEBRATE THEBEAUTY & SPLENDORFOUND IN THEFLOWER GARDEN [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|on|on” admin_label=”mobile version” _builder_version=”4.10.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|300|||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”36px” header_letter_spacing=”3px” header_line_height=”2em” animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”1200ms” animation_delay=”1000ms” global_colors_info=”{}”] CELEBRATE THEBEAUTY & SPLENDORFOUND[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Header” _builder_version=”4.10.3″ _module_preset=”default” background_image=”https://www.christiepurifoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Header.png” background_position=”top_center” custom_padding=”60px||60px||true|” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|off|off” _builder_version=”4.10.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|300|||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”44px” header_letter_spacing=”5px” header_line_height=”2em” animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”1200ms” animation_delay=”1000ms” global_colors_info=”{}”] CELEBRATE THEBEAUTY & SPLENDORFOUND IN THEFLOWER GARDEN [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|on|on” admin_label=”mobile version” _builder_version=”4.10.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|300|||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”36px” header_letter_spacing=”3px” header_line_height=”2em” animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”1200ms” animation_delay=”1000ms” global_colors_info=”{}”] CELEBRATE THEBEAUTY & SPLENDORFOUND
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- [Test Page contact form](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/test-page-contact-form/)
- [Placemaker Preorders](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/placemaker-preorders/)
- [Footer sample - 2020 June](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/footer-sample-2020-june/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/privacy-policy/)
- [Where to Begin?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/where-to-begin/) - On this page Christie shares links to some of the more important posts on There is a River.
- [Especially for my subscribers](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/especially-for-my-subscribers/) - Especially for my subscribers, a seasonal freebie as a way of saying thank you for being a part of this community.
- [Podcast](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/podcast/)
- [Blog page](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/blog-page/)
- [My Books](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/my-books/) - More information about my book Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons, published by Revell in winter 2016.
- [These Farmhouse Bookshelves](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/these-farmhouse-bookshelves/)
- [Books](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/books/)

## Projects

- [Hardy Annuals To Plant In Fall](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/hardy-annuals-to-plant-in-fall/)
- [The American Woman's Garden: A Book Review](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/the-american-womans-garden-a-book-review/)
- [Why You Should Plant More of the Same](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/why-you-should-plant-more-of-the-same/)
- [The Power of Green](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/the-power-of-green/)
- [Why Container Gardening?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/why-container-gardening/)
- [Cold Frames: What They Are and How To Use Them](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/cold-frames-what-they-are-and-how-to-use-them/)
- [Windcliff: A Book Review](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/windcliff-a-book-review/)
- [Ready, Set, Grow: My Spring Garden Tasks](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/ready-set-grow-my-spring-garden-tasks/)
- [The Joy of Seasonal "Emblems" in our Gardens](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/the-joy-of-seasonal-emblems-in-our-gardens/)
- [My Favorite Beet And How I Eat It](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/my-favorite-beet-and-how-i-eat-it/)
- [Gardens in the Spirit of Place: A Book Review](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/gardens-in-the-spirit-of-place-a-book-review/)
- [Four Different Flavors of Garden Shade](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/four-different-flavors-of-garden-shade/)
- [My Favorite Kale and How I Eat It](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/my-favorite-kale-and-how-i-eat-it/)
- [Let Yourself Hope](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/let-yourself-hope/)
- [Leaf Season](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/leaf-season/)
- [My Favorite Tools and How to Care For Them](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/my-favorite-tools-and-how-to-care-for-them/)
- [An Idiosyncratic Guide to Ornamental Grasses](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/an-idiosyncratic-guide-to-ornamental-grasses/)
- [Christie's Favorites: Mail-Order Plants](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/christies-favorites-mail-order-plants/)
- [My Favorite Houseplant](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/my-favorite-houseplant/)
- [Merry Hall: A Book Review](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/merry-hall-a-book-review/)
- [Grow Your Own Figs](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/grow-your-own-figs/)
- [A Different Kind of Bulb](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/a-different-kind-of-bulb/)
- [Safer Gardening (Tools and Tips)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/safer-gardening-tools-and-tips/)
- [T.S. Eliot in the Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/t-s-eliot-in-the-garden/)
- [Re-thinking Annuals](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/re-thinking-annuals/)
- [Garden Math](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/garden-math/)
- [A Dreamy Plant Book](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/a-dreamy-plant-book/)
- [History and the Garden: Formality and Symmetry](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/history-and-the-garden-formality-and-symmetry/)
- [The Longest Lasting Color in the Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/the-longest-lasting-color-in-the-garden/)
- [Top Five Garden Tasks for Fall](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/top-five-garden-tasks-for-fall/)
- [A Tree in the House: A Book Review](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/a-tree-in-the-house-a-book-review/)
- [Bulbs to Order Today](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/bulbs-to-order-today/)
- [Brilliant and Wild: A Book Review](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/brilliant-and-wild-a-book-review/)
- [Less Really Is More](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/less-really-is-more/)
- [Plant Names: From Confusion to Clarity](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/plant-names-from-confusion-to-clarity/)
- [Why Dirt Under Our Nails Is So Good For Us](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/why-dirt-under-our-nails-is-so-good-for-us/)
- [Design Your Garden Like Your Living Room](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/design-your-garden-like-your-living-room/)
- [Why January and July are Alike in the Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/why-january-and-july-are-alike-in-the-garden/)
- [Unsung Heroes: The Best Plants You've Never Grown](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/unsung-heroes-the-best-plants-youve-never-grown/)
- [Celebrate: Cut Flowers!](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/celebrate-cut-flowers/)
- [Two Books for The Less Than Perfect Gardener](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/two-books-for-the-less-than-perfect-gardener/)
- [Celebrate: Garden Chairs!](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/celebrate-garden-chairs/)
- [Celebrate: Herbs!](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/celebrate-herbs/)
- [How to Grow Whimsy and Wonder: A Topiary Guide](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/how-to-grow-whimsy-and-wonder-a-topiary-guide/)
- [In Praise of Ugly Plants](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/in-praise-of-ugly-plants/)
- [How Scissors and Clippers Can Give New, Free Plants (Part 2 of 2)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/how-scissors-and-clippers-can-give-new-free-plants-part-2-of-2/)
- [How Scissors and Clippers Can Give New, Free Plants (Part 1 of 2)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/how-scissors-and-clippers-can-give-new-free-plants-part-1-of-2/)
- [Vicarious Gardening](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/vicarious-gardening/)
- [Make New Plants For Free](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/make-new-plants-for-free/)
- [After We Weed and Water: Let's Celebrate](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/after-we-weed-and-water-lets-celebrate/)
- [Planting Roses (for Easier Tending)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/planting-roses-for-easier-tending/)
- [Garden Roses for Hot and Sticky Summers](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/garden-roses-for-hot-and-sticky-summers/)
- [An Encouraging Perspective on Banks and Slopes](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/an-encouraging-perspective-on-banks-and-slopes/)
- [Meet the Gardener: Julie Witmer](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/meet-the-gardener-julie-witmer/)
- [A Few Favorite Websites](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/a-few-favorite-websites/)
- [Watering: For Your Plants' Well-being and Your Own](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/watering-for-your-plants-well-being-and-your-own/)
- [Kitchen Garden Revival (a Book Review)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/kitchen-garden-revival-a-book-review/)
- [Why You Should Know Your Zone (and Know When to Ignore It)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/why-you-should-know-your-zone-and-know-when-to-ignore-it/)
- [In Praise of Terra Cotta Pots](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/in-praise-of-terra-cotta-pots/)
- [Florida Favorites for Every Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/florida-favorites-for-every-garden/)
- [Plants for Soggy Soil](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/plants-for-soggy-soil/)
- [How To Keep Containers Looking Their Best](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/how-to-keep-containers-looking-their-best/)
- [Soil is Everything](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/soil-is-everything/)
- [There Are So Many Ways to Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/there-are-so-many-ways-to-garden/)
- [These Are Special Trees](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/these-are-special-trees/)
- [Five Bulbs to Order in Spring and Plant in Fall](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/five-bulbs-to-order-in-spring-and-plant-in-fall/)
- [Favorite Shrubs](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/favorite-shrubs/)
- [Rethinking Solitude](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/rethinking-solitude/)
- [Favorite Lilies](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/favorite-lilies/)
- [Favorite Peonies](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/favorite-peonies/)
- [Favorite Daffodils](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/favorite-daffodils/)
- [Favorite Tulips](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/favorite-tulips/)
- [How to Grow Bulbs in Containers](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/how-to-grow-bulbs-in-containers/)
- [Vintage Roses (for your garden library)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/vintage-roses-for-your-garden-library/)
- [How to Prune a Lilac (and a book recommendation)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/how-to-prune-a-lilac-and-a-book-recommendation/)
- [I Love Purple (Plants)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/i-love-purple-plants/)
- [Why You Should Know About Sheet Mulching](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/why-you-should-know-about-sheet-mulching/)
- [Garden Quotations: Robert Benson](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/garden-quotations-robert-benson/)
- [The Magic Number Three](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/the-magic-number-three/)
- [The Star Performers in my Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/the-star-performers-in-my-garden/)
- [Garden Deeper (Not Wider)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/garden-deeper-not-wider/)
- [Gardening is Work (You're Not Just Doing it Wrong)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/gardening-is-work-youre-not-just-doing-it-wrong/)
- [Rose Pruning Basics](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/rose-pruning-basics/)
- [Why Choose Annuals?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/why-choose-annuals/)
- [Annuals and Perennials: Why It's More (Beautifully) Complicated Than We Think](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/annuals-and-perennials-why-its-more-beautifully-complicated-than-we-think/)
- [How and Why to Underplant Your Tree](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/how-and-why-to-underplant-your-tree/)
- [My Favorite Tool for Tackling Weeds](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/my-favorite-tool-for-tackling-weeds/)
- [What the Garden Gives](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/what-the-garden-gives/)
- [Permaculture Inspiration](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/permaculture-inspiration/)
- [Garden Memoirs](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/garden-memoirs/)
- [Why "Continuously Blooming" Isn't Necessarily Better](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/why-continuously-blooming-isnt-necessarily-better/)
- [Sources for Native Plants](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/sources-for-native-plants/)
- [Ornamental Grasses to Consider for Your Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/ornamental-grasses-to-consider-for-your-garden/)
- [My Favorite Shrubs](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/my-favorite-shrubs/)
- [Composting: How to Begin?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/composting-how-to-begin/)
- [Favorites for Edible Landscaping](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/favorites-for-edible-landscaping/)
- [Weed Control Meets Recycling](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/weed-control-meets-recycling/)
- [Native Trees](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/native-trees/)
- [Self-seeding Flowers](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/self-seeding-flowers/)
- [Choosing Edibles When Space Is Limited](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/choosing-edibles-when-space-is-limited/)
- [It's the Work of Gardening That Matters Most](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/its-the-work-of-gardening-that-matters-most/)
- [Encouragement for your Pest Problems](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/encouragement-for-your-pest-problems/)
- [Favorite Mail-order Sources](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/favorite-mail-order-sources/)
- [Why I Garden](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/why-i-garden/)
- [Seed Starting: How to begin?](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/seed-starting-how-to-begin/)
- [A New Point of View on Native Plants](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/13458/)
- [My Favorite Roses](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/my-favorite-roses/)
- [Seeds for Beauty and for Flavor](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/seeds-for-beauty-and-for-flavor/)
- [Books to Begin With (And Books to Grow Into)](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/project/books-to-begin-with-and-books-to-grow-into/)

## Books

- [Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/books/roots-and-sky-a-journey-home-in-four-seasons/)
- [Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace](https://www.christiepurifoy.com/books/placemaker-cultivating-places-of-comfort-beauty-and-peace/)

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