It’s Time to Stop Trying to Be the Perfect Mom
You long to be the mom your kids need, but often you’re convinced you come up short. The label “not enough” seems to be stamped across everything you do—and yet parenting is the one thing you want most to get right.
What if the solution is simply to embrace the truth that you are not enough—but God is?
In Gospel-Centered Mom Brooke McGlothlin reveals how our entire approach to motherhood shifts when we stop chasing our vision of a perfect family and start full-out pursuing God. With refreshing candor, Brooke examines the daunting task of raising children in the light of God’s Word and challenges you to:
· embrace your moment-by-moment need for Jesus
· release the stress of believing everything is your responsibility
· learn to fight for rather than against your child
· believe that the story God is writing with your life is worth the sacrifice
· practice the daily disciplines that lead to Gospel-centered parenting
As you learn to anchor your life in the Gospel, you’ll find increased freedom, purpose, and joy in motherhood. And you’ll discover that Jesus is more than capable of meeting every need, for your children and for you.
Pick up your copy on Amazon today
Meet Brooke McGlothlin:
She received her B.S. in Psychology from Virginia Tech (1999) and her Masters in Counseling from Liberty University (2003). She served for over 10 years as Director of Clinical Services in local Pregnancy Care ministry before making the best choice of her life--staying home with her boys. Brooke uses her ministry experience to reach women, writing to bring hope to the messes of life (in the midst of her own messy life).
In 2010, Brooke co-founded The MOB Society, where moms and dads are encouraged and equipped to raise godly men. Her books include Praying for Boys: Asking God for the Things They Need Most (Bethany House, January 2014), Hope for the Weary Mom: Where God Meets You in Your Mess (co-authored with Stacey Thacker from Harvest House), the Hope for the Weary Mom 40 Day Devotional (Harvest House) and How to Control Your Emotions, So They Don't Control You: A Mom's Guide to Overcoming (an ebook).
Brooke has been written devotionals for Proverbs 31 Ministries, Ann Voskamp's A Holy Experience, and has been a featured blogger for LifeWay's ParentLife blog, with a featured article on raising hard-to-handle boys in LifeWay's ParentLife magazine in September 2013.
A normal day finds Brooke homeschooling her two boys, wrangling two large Labs, Toby and Siri, and falling more and more in love with the man she's had a crush on since the third grade (who just happens to be her husband). She enjoys playing hard with her boys, searching for beauty through photography, and serving on the Board of Directors for Blue Ridge Women's Center, a local Pregnancy Care Ministry.
Follow her on Twitter as @BLMcGlothlin
Follow on Facebook @BrookeWrites
My Take:
When I received this book I was really feeling the inadequacy of being a Mom. More often than not, I feel like I can't do this, I am not enough, others have it all together me? Help! I'm a failure!
The timing for this book was perfect. In the very first chapter, Brooke gives and example of feeling like no matter what she did... she was not enough, comparing herself to other moms who seemed to have it all together, trying to work, keep house, maintain a peaceful atmosphere, all the while struggling with the feeling of incompetence. Did she just hit the nail on the head? For me, yes! Oh the relief when in the very first chapter, she says ... you will never be enough. And it's ok! For me that was such a breath of fresh air! I don't have too be enough, I can quit trying so hard, because Jesus is the Only One who will always be enough. It was freeing, encouraging and I couldn't wait to read more.
Most of the time I do not read, self help books very quickly. Honestly, you have to process, digest, etc... as you read. But I did not want to put this book down. I was able to relate to so much of what she was saying. I felt like I was in the pit, but she was throwing me a life line, and I wanted to climb out as fast as I could.
Brooke doesn't offer quick fixes, twelve step plans... rather she offers, the GOSPEL - Jesus. She offers encouragement and grace. She offers reminders that we weren't meant to have it all, be everything, or keep it all together. She gives hope for the weary, not in a do-it-better, work-at-it-harder plan, instead in knowing that God is our lifeline, our hope, and that without Him we truly can do nothing. Sounds depressing doesn't it, but it's actually quite freeing to just live in the grace of Jesus!
She gives a contrast between society's focus on self and the subtle "ME"-gospel verses the TRUE-Gospel in which our hope lies.
I was blessed with a copy of this book from Waterbrook Multanomah and Blogging for books. I was not asked or required to review positively. All opinions are my own.
You long to be the mom your kids need, but often you’re convinced you come up short. The label “not enough” seems to be stamped across everything you do—and yet parenting is the one thing you want most to get right. What if the solution is simply to embrace the truth that you are not enough—but God is?
In Gospel-Centered Mom Brooke McGlothlin reveals how our entire approach to motherhood shifts when we stop chasing our vision of a perfect family and start full-out pursuing God. With refreshing candor, Brooke examines the daunting task of raising children in the light of God’s Word and challenges you to:
· embrace your moment-by-moment need for Jesus
· release the stress of believing everything is your responsibility
· learn to fight for rather than against your child
· believe that the story God is writing with your life is worth the sacrifice
· practice the daily disciplines that lead to Gospel-centered parenting
As you learn to anchor your life in the Gospel, you’ll find increased freedom, purpose, and joy in motherhood. And you’ll discover that Jesus is more than capable of meeting every need, for your children and for you.
Pick up your copy on Amazon today
Meet Brooke McGlothlin:
She received her B.S. in Psychology from Virginia Tech (1999) and her Masters in Counseling from Liberty University (2003). She served for over 10 years as Director of Clinical Services in local Pregnancy Care ministry before making the best choice of her life--staying home with her boys. Brooke uses her ministry experience to reach women, writing to bring hope to the messes of life (in the midst of her own messy life).
In 2010, Brooke co-founded The MOB Society, where moms and dads are encouraged and equipped to raise godly men. Her books include Praying for Boys: Asking God for the Things They Need Most (Bethany House, January 2014), Hope for the Weary Mom: Where God Meets You in Your Mess (co-authored with Stacey Thacker from Harvest House), the Hope for the Weary Mom 40 Day Devotional (Harvest House) and How to Control Your Emotions, So They Don't Control You: A Mom's Guide to Overcoming (an ebook).
Brooke has been written devotionals for Proverbs 31 Ministries, Ann Voskamp's A Holy Experience, and has been a featured blogger for LifeWay's ParentLife blog, with a featured article on raising hard-to-handle boys in LifeWay's ParentLife magazine in September 2013.
A normal day finds Brooke homeschooling her two boys, wrangling two large Labs, Toby and Siri, and falling more and more in love with the man she's had a crush on since the third grade (who just happens to be her husband). She enjoys playing hard with her boys, searching for beauty through photography, and serving on the Board of Directors for Blue Ridge Women's Center, a local Pregnancy Care Ministry.
Follow her on Twitter as @BLMcGlothlin
Follow on Facebook @BrookeWrites
My Take:
When I received this book I was really feeling the inadequacy of being a Mom. More often than not, I feel like I can't do this, I am not enough, others have it all together me? Help! I'm a failure!
The timing for this book was perfect. In the very first chapter, Brooke gives and example of feeling like no matter what she did... she was not enough, comparing herself to other moms who seemed to have it all together, trying to work, keep house, maintain a peaceful atmosphere, all the while struggling with the feeling of incompetence. Did she just hit the nail on the head? For me, yes! Oh the relief when in the very first chapter, she says ... you will never be enough. And it's ok! For me that was such a breath of fresh air! I don't have too be enough, I can quit trying so hard, because Jesus is the Only One who will always be enough. It was freeing, encouraging and I couldn't wait to read more.
Most of the time I do not read, self help books very quickly. Honestly, you have to process, digest, etc... as you read. But I did not want to put this book down. I was able to relate to so much of what she was saying. I felt like I was in the pit, but she was throwing me a life line, and I wanted to climb out as fast as I could.
Brooke doesn't offer quick fixes, twelve step plans... rather she offers, the GOSPEL - Jesus. She offers encouragement and grace. She offers reminders that we weren't meant to have it all, be everything, or keep it all together. She gives hope for the weary, not in a do-it-better, work-at-it-harder plan, instead in knowing that God is our lifeline, our hope, and that without Him we truly can do nothing. Sounds depressing doesn't it, but it's actually quite freeing to just live in the grace of Jesus!
She gives a contrast between society's focus on self and the subtle "ME"-gospel verses the TRUE-Gospel in which our hope lies.
I was blessed with a copy of this book from Waterbrook Multanomah and Blogging for books. I was not asked or required to review positively. All opinions are my own.
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