More for Mom: Living Your Whole and Holy Life

When I start highlighting in the first chapter, you know it's gonna be good. Women today struggle with feeling like we aren't enough – our houses aren't clean enough, our bodies aren't thin enough, our cars aren't fancy enough, our kids aren't well-behaved enough or socially adjusted enough or outside in the fresh air enough. If we work outside the home, we feel like we aren't committed enough at work because we have families, but yet we're torn in feeling like we aren't enough for our families because we're working. Everywhere we turn, we're bombarded with social media showing us what we should be and do and look like to be enough.

Kristin Funston writes More for Mom to gently remind us that we don't have to strive to make the various pieces of our life “enough”. Why? Because in Jesus, we are already whole and holy, and there is more FOR us if we will just rely on and rest in Him.

This book was a breath of fresh air for me. I'm a control freak of the first order. I want it all right, all the time, right when I want it. Clearly, life doesn't play that way, and I sometimes find myself striving after “more”. Gotta get up early to get in that quiet time – check. (Never mind the seventeen times I hit snooze on the alarm.) Gotta make healthy meals that my kids will love – check. (Okay, not really. At least one of my kids finds some reason to express displeasure with what's on the table almost every single night.) Gotta have the house spotless – check. (BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO.) More for Mom was written for me. The author spoke to my weary soul, reminding me that I'm not the bits and pieces of my life slapped together in a jumbled whole. I'm already whole and holy – yes, holy – me, with the sarcasm and the crazy hair and the car that usually looks like a trashcan on wheels – because of what Jesus did for me on the cross. She uses Scriptural truths and personal stories to convey her message, and it was like sitting down for coffee with a friend – a friend who will hug you when you need it and kick you in the pants when the occasion calls for that.

I found the book very uplifting, and I'd recommend it to any mom who feels like she's pulled in too many different directions and just can't get it all together. Jesus is what keeps us all together, sisters. Read this book and be encouraged.

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the BlogAbout Blogger Network. All opinions here are mine, and I don't say nice things about books I don't like.