This Place: A Few Notes from Home

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ISBN 978-1-941106-20-4 | List $24.99

The final book in the Place trilogy opens with a return home after 12 years of wandering. Margie and her family settled into an old three-story Minnesota house their children christened Toad Hall." There they leaned into the everyday as a place to grow in faithfulness in the ordinary and routine. For more than three decades others were welcomed into their home as a place of safety and learning. Reflections on life there became essays published as Notes From Toad Hall, now collected in this volume. This Place paints a picture of life filled with humor and honesty, an accounting that finds the sacred in the ordinary.

NOTE: This Place was originally published as God in the Sink. This second edition contains eight new chapters and a new foreword.

Reading Margie Haack is at one and the same time deeply satisfying, because we are sure she knows us, and horribly troubling, because she knows us. Like her, we are people trying hard to keep going, aware—as she writes in This Place—that “the rhythm of ordinary life is rarely that exciting or sensational for all who wander the wastelands of earth.” Whether we enter into her world in the quiet of our own hearts, or in the company of family and friends, her words are a gift of grace, allowing us to remember what matters most—and to imagine that it is possible to still love what is ours to love, wounded people in a wounded world that we are.

—Steven Garber, author of Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good

In this wonderfully honest, raw, and joyful book, Margie Haack’s words convey a whisper of sanity and authenticity in the midst of an otherwise clamorous world. May we all learn and grow from the window she has provided us into the life of faith.
—David Richter, Senior Pastor, City Church East Nashville, TN

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