My Heart Christ's Home: A Story for Old and Young
by Robert Boyd Munger, Andrea Jorgenson
Why You'll Love This
This tiny book asks one quietly devastating question: if Jesus walked through every room of your heart, what would He find?
- Great if you want: a short, honest challenge to deepen your faith's daily practice
- The experience: contemplative and intimate — reads in one sitting, lingers much longer
- The writing: Munger uses a single extended metaphor with surprising consistency and precision
- Skip if: allegorical devotional writing feels too indirect or overly symbolic for you
About This Book
What would it look like if Jesus actually moved into your heart — not as a vague spiritual concept, but as a present, observant guest walking through every room of your inner life? Robert Boyd Munger's beloved extended metaphor takes that question seriously, guiding readers through the living room, dining room, study, and even the cluttered closets of the soul. The result is surprisingly convicting. There is nowhere to hide, and that is exactly the point. For anyone wrestling with the gap between the life they profess and the life they actually live, this small book lands with quiet, lasting weight.
What sets this reading experience apart is Munger's gift for making the abstract feel lived-in. The domestic imagery is specific enough to be disarming — you recognize these rooms, these habits, these corners you have been avoiding. Andrea Jorgenson's illustrated edition gives the text a warmth that suits its intimate scale. At just 64 pages, the book asks almost nothing of your time and rather a great deal of your honesty, which is precisely what makes it worth returning to again and again across different seasons of life.