A review by roseduryee
Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons by Christie Purifoy

5.0

I loved this book. Christie writes so beautifully. At first I felt it was quite melancholy, and I didn't really like it, but at the same time I couldn't stop reading. I live for spring and summer and I wanted to see if the sadness lifted. As a beauty seeker myself, Christie spoke my language and appealed to all my senses. I live in an apartment in a big city in Spain, and I probably won't ever have a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, but I enjoyed going on the journey with her. My one tiny complaint is that she, like many Christian writers encouraging us to find God in the ordinary, she can't imagine herself as a preacher or missionary. It's difficult to read about how ordinary people can't do such extraordinary jobs (or feel they can't). I am a missionary, and I am as ordinary as can be. I am simply obeying God's call in scripture and on my life. For example, she thought maybe she should send a missionary her money instead of buying seeds. Whichever brings God glory, that's what a missionary wants. It's God's money, anyway. But it was like a throwaway thought, and it twisted the heart a little.