10 years ago if
you had asked me how I felt about mother hood, I would have said it was a goal
secondary to pursuing my career. “I could never be a stay-at-home-mom…I’d go
crazy.” Who knew that the moment I held
my first little baby after a long, exhausting, and painful day of labor, my
heart shattered into a million tiny pieces and then reassembled in a manner
more complicated and beautiful than ever before? In that moment, my life changed
dramatically. My husband and I fell in
love with this tiny creature who immediately wrapped her tiny fingers around my
finger…and my heart. Then…the mommy wars
started pressuring me…
How could you
possibly go back to work? Did you
breastfeed for over a year? You should
try baby wearing…how could you put your baby in a stroller? Do this, not this. The judgment and pressure from society can
be simply overwhelming and can suck some of the joy out of motherhood.
This book is a
delightful collaborative effort among 7 mothers to provide women with a godly
view of motherhood. So are you "mom enough?" The answer
to this question according to this book is a resounding NO. No...you are
not mom enough on your own, but God is infinitely more than you could imagine.
Together with God, you are mom enough.
"And somehow, in God’s
mathematics of grace: Mom (never enough) + God (infinitely enough) = Mom
enough"
The book is
formatted in easy to read, short, digestible chapters. It reads much like
a collaborative blog. Each woman brings
her own unique perspective and insight.
It starts out with a chapter on “Motherhood is a Calling.” Our culture is afraid of servitude, afraid of
living a life of sacrifice for another, and afraid that you won’t be able to
accomplish your life goals if you are a mother.
As a Christian mother, our calling is more than a call to a life of
resentful drudgery, but instead a way to model Jesus’ sacrificial love to our
children and to the world through motherhood.
Jesus loves the little children.
The rest of the
book covers a variety of subjects from motherhood as a mission, maintaining an
eternal view, trusting God with your children, prayer, letting go of society’s
impossible standards, embracing love, ending the Mommy Wars, practicing Grace,
and an treasure box of other topics. It
is the perfect combination of conviction and grace. I highly recommend it to any Christian
mother, and it would make a great baby shower gift.
Did I mention you
can read it for free? You can download the entire book at
