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This is an exquisite book. In Humble Roots, Hannah Anderson
intends to make us gardeners . . . to and tend that rarest
of cultivars, humility. Humility orients us rightly toward our
bodies, emotions, and intellect. It orients us rightly toward our
possessions, desires, and circumstances. It orients us rightly
toward the cross. And nurtured carefully in the fertile soil of
grace, humility grants us a harvest of true rest. Wistful,
nostalgic, and deeply wise. I read it through tears.
JEN WILKIN
Bible teacher and author of Women of the Word and None Like Him
Hannah’s use of the gardening metaphor was so beautiful that I
started to long for a rural home where I could can my own green
beans or pick blackberries. Humble Roots is a concise invitation
(without how-to’s) to put off the pride of accomplishment,
self-trust, and works righteousness, and enter into the humility
that is not only the door to true Christianity but also the daily
life of deep faith.
ELYSE M. FITZPATRICK
Author of Home: How Heaven and the New Earth Satisfy Our Deepest
Longings
A beautiful, poignant, and wise book. You will see connections
between God’s world and His Word that you have never noticed:
between tomatoes and impatience, honey and competitiveness, soil
and resurrection. And if you’re anything like me, you will find
yourself rejoicing.
ANDREW WILSON
Teaching Pastor at King’s Church London
Author of The Life We Never Expected and Unbreakable.
Hannah Anderson takes being a locavore even more seriously than
farm-to-table restaurants and farmer’s market goers. She takes it
to the most local place of all: our own hearts. This is the book
I’ve been wanting on the shelves of Christians everywhere.
LORE FERGUSON WILBERT
Writer at Sayable.net, Christianity Today, Revive our Hearts, She
Reads Truth, and more
God made us to be close to the ground. So it’s fitting that
Hannah Anderson roots her clear and compassionate teaching in
stories close to the ground. The result is nourishment for our
souls. Anderson res us in the her’s provision, wisdom,
and care.
KATELYN BEATY
Managing Editor, Christianity Today magazine
Author of A Woman’s Place
C. S. Lewis famously wrote that humility is not thinking less of
ourselves; rather, it is thinking of ourselves less, and in such
a way that frees us to redirect our energies toward God and those
He has given us to love. Using one of God’s favorite places and
metaphors, the garden, coupled with endearing and sometimes
humbling anecdotes from her own life story, Hannah paints a
compelling picture of why we should, and ways that we can, pour
contempt on our pride. Please read this book. It will renew your
perspective, and it could change your life.
SCOTT SAULS
Senior Pastor, Christ Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN
Author of Jesus Outside the Lines and Befriend
Hannah has written a simple but profound book. Her earthy style
of writing accents the deep truths of Scripture in a way that is
accessible to those of us who most need to hear this message. I
predict this book will become a classic on the subject.
WENDY ALSUP
Author of Practical Theology for Women and The Gospel-Centered
Woman
Blogger at www.theologyforwomen.org
This is just the kind of book I love: readers are promised a
meal—and Humble Roots delivers a feast. With serious biblical
reflection and vivid storytelling, Hannah Anderson compels us to
seek humility. Rooted in Jesus, we abandon our illusions of
control; we embrace our limits; we learn to depend.
JEN POLLOCK MICHEL
Author of Teach Us to Want, Christianity Today’s 2015 Book of the
Year
Humble Roots is soulful spirituality at its best—earthy,
embodied, and energizing. Andersonbeckons us to reconsider both
the rhythms of God’s creation and the frantic pace of our lives.
The gospel brings reconciliation of all things in heaven and
earth. This includes our God-formed bodies to the land God
created for us.
DANIEL MONTGOMERY
Lead Pastor, Sojourn Community Church, Louisville, KY; founder of
the Sojourn Network
Author of Faithping, PROOF, and Leadership Mosaic
I can think of nothing that might fix what ails this increasingly
chaotic, power-hungry world more than a dose of humility and
deeper rootedness. Whether you’re a city slicker, a suburban
dweller, or a country bumpkin, these true parables—lovely
memories of rural life seasoned with sharp ins—will hit you
right where you live.
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR
Author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me and Fierce
Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet,
Reformer Abolitionist
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From the Back Cover
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Feeling worn thin? Come find rest.
Nestled in the simple rhythms of rural life, taking cues from
forsythia, milkweed, and wild blackberries, Hannah Anderson
meditates on the pursuit of peace and its natural companion,
humility.
Part theology of incarnation, part stroll through fields and
forest, Humble Roots reveals how cultivating humility—not
scheduling or increased productivity—leads to true peace. By
remembering who you are and Who you aren’t, you can discover
afresh your need for God and the rest that comes from belonging
to Him.
So come. Consider the lilies of the field, and learn humility
from Christ Himself.
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