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Every longing heart needs a loving witness.
We are made with a remarkable design—created to desire love. Yet we wrestle with injured hopes and wrong distortions of our wants. Sometimes we turn fretfully desperate, or walled off in hurt. It can become difficult to believe our ache for connection is anything good.
Through scenes from her grandpa’s farmhouse and the “glass-house dreams” that distress her, Maggie shares her story as a young mother in need of God’s comfort to settle her fear. Her longing heart is not useless. Yearning souls bear traces of a wonderfully-made design.
A celebration of redeemable humanity and imperfect communities, Stepping Home invites us to compassionately embrace our hunger for connection. This desire is not a defect. It’s beautiful confirmation that we are intricately formed to belong to our Home in the kingdom of God.
"There are finished dreams available to relish at this moment. The kingdom of God is in our midst."
What others are saying:
"Life isn't always easy, nor do we often understand why we go through times of trials and tribulations. Relationships with others, even with friends or fellow Christians, can be strewn with strife, judgmentalism, and misunderstandings. Stepping Home explores all of this in a gentle and thoroughly satisfying way."
—Mike Clifton, author of The End Game
"May you be enriched by learning how this Christian sister thinks, feels and processes the events in her life. May her openness encourage you to reflect on your own feelings and experiences."
—Dr. Ron Meyers of Empowering Christian Leaders
"Chronicling the journey of restoring a beloved 100-year-old ancestral farmhouse with her husband and children, Maggie makes a vulnerable comparison to the broken places in her own life in need of renovation. As the farmhouse has always represented a place of belonging and home to Maggie, so we each have a place inside us that searches out our true home.
Maggie has a wonderful way of telling stories that makes you feel as if you’re right there in the farmhouse with her and her family. And the transparency with which she shares her struggles is in itself the gift of friendship extended to her readers."