The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming - Paperback

by Sally Clarkson (Author), Sarah Clarkson (Author)

How to make home your family's favorite place to be . . . all year long.

Does your home sometimes feel like just a place to eat, sleep, and change clothes on the way to the next activity? Do you long for "home" to mean more than a place where you stash your stuff? Wouldn't you love it to become a haven of warmth, rest, nourishment, and joy . . . the one place where you and your family can't wait to be?

There is good news waiting for you in the pages of The Lifegiving Home. Every day of your family's life can be as special and important to you as it already is to God. In this unique book designed to help your family enjoy and celebrate every month of the year together, you'll discover the secrets of a life-giving home from a mother who created one and her daughter who was raised in it: popular authors and homemakers Sally and Sarah Clarkson. Together they offer a rich treasure of wise advice, spiritual principles, and practical suggestions. You'll embark on a new path to:

• Create special memories for your children
• Establish home-building and God-centered traditions and rhythms
• Cultivate a peaceful and creative environment in which your family will flourish

Be inspired to create a refuge for all that is beautiful, good, holy, and foundational to life.

(Don't miss the companion guide, The Lifegiving Home Experience.)

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Secrets to making home the place your family longs to be
In our deepest hearts, we want home to be a place where our spirits are filled. A lifegiving haven of warmth, rest, and joy that will encourage everyone who enters it; a welcoming respite in an isolated culture.

Join beloved authors Sally and Sarah Clarkson to discover the path to a lifegiving home--from a mother who's known for creating one and her daughter who was raised in it. This is their story: a story about a home where a real family learned to flourish, grow, and belong. Together they offer a treasury of wise advice and spiritual principles to help you create a place for all that is beautiful, good, holy, and foundational to life.

The Lifegiving Home will lead you on a new path to creating special memories for your children; establishing God-centered traditions; and cultivating an environment your family will cherish their whole lives long.

Author Biography

Sally Clarkson is the beloved author of multiple bestselling books, including Own Your Life, The Lifegiving Home and Different. As the mother of four adult children, she has advocated relentlessly for the power of motherhood and the influence of home through her Mom Heart conferences (www.momheart.org), speaking to audiences on several continents. Sally encourages many through her blog www.sallyclarkson.com and through her popular podcast, At Home with Sally and Friends.

Sarah Clarkson loves books, beauty, and imagination, and thinks everyone else should too. She's a published author (The Lifegiving Home, Read for the Heart, Caught Up in a Story) and recent graduate of Oxford University, where she studied theology at Wycliffe Hall. She blogs at sarahclarkson.com and is a regular guest on the podcast At Home with Sally, where she chats about her current reads and imaginative discoveries. She lives in Oxford, England, in a red-doored cottage she shares with her husband, Thomas and their daughter, Lilian.