Every Home a Foundation: Experiencing God Through Your Everyday Routines

The home is the “primary seat of discipleship” from which Christians can best serve God, according to this graceful guide. Masonheimer (Every Woman a Theologian) details how readers can live out God’s purpose by finding beauty in “mundane” work like laundry or cooking (as all labor matters to God) or creating a “community of welcome” where “strangers, foreigners, sojourners” can gather. Appreciating one’s home despite its imperfections teaches one to love “whatever He has given us,” a lesson the author illustrates by recalling her grandmother’s pride in her modest single-wide trailer, which “might have been small, but it was impeccably clean.... Just a place to feel safe and loved, to be fed and attended to.” Interspersing the account with useful lessons for sprucing up one’s living space (decluttering kitchen cabinets can help readers to better “enjoy the blessing under your feet”), Masonheimer makes a creative, open-minded case that the domestic and the divine need not be mutually exclusive. Christian homemakers will feel especially inspired. (Dec.)