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At Home Within by Maya Murphy is a faith-centered guide that explores the meaning of home and how this connects to finding the Lord in your everyday life. The idea of home evolves from a concept of peace and beauty found in an environment that helps your soul feel steady. When we return home, we feel surrounded by what makes us most comfortable, so this guide focuses on creating a home that has God at the center of it. Murphy uses the experience of around twenty renovations to explore how this can be used to create a home grounded in God’s will, which includes incorporating elements of stability, functionality, and spirituality. The book dives into more than just elements of décor, providing insights into how to build strong financial foundations, designing rooms, developing traditions, and giving yourself the best peaceful inner life founded by God.
This book is a unique Biblical self-help guide that uses the concept of home as a foundation for how to create a life based on the works of God. Maya Murphy builds a resource for those seeking ways to become more comfortable with their surroundings, whether that’s through fine design details or key essentials. Murphy focuses on the different elements that we should find in our homes, from comfort to hospitality, which are each linked to examples from the Bible. Whether you’re first drawn to the faith-centered aspects or the design ones, there’s something in this guide for everyone. Murphy speaks honestly and from her own journey, which takes the ‘perfect’ home and shows you that a ‘true’ home is so much more than perfect. This guide helps you track your budget, tips for organizing (along with decluttering) your life, the do’s and don’ts of working with a designer, activities, and key takeaways. These elements separate this book from others, while allowing for thought-provoking self-reflection. At Home Within is a unique interactive resource that will help you understand the true meaning of home and having a faith-focused life.
