New Book: "Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations For Busy Moms"

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Tonight I started to read a little booklet that I got at the CBMW conference this week called: Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms by Gloria Furman. (The entire book was just published this March! I can't wait to buy it!)






Just in the short first introductory chapter my heart was spoken to as I read the words from another mom with young children who wrote of looking to Christ and His gospel for your strength and not to the world.

I must share some of my favorite quotes thus far:

"It doesn't matter where you are from or what your circumstances are; the greatest reality a mother can appreciate and rest in is the work that Jesus has done on the cross on our behalf. " (pg. 14)

"Day and night, moment by moment, we must choose to rest in Jesus. That's what it means to treasure Christ when your hands are full, whether you have one child or a dozen. " (pg. 15)

"Because of the gospel, we mothers can rejoice as we find our hands full of blessings in Jesus, because all we know is Grace. " (pg. 15)

This here is my favorite quote of them all:

"The gospel stands above and beyond all the most practical, family-friendly, or cost-effective philosophies of mothering. The good news of Jesus Christ is superior to our to-do lists and metaphorical mother-of-the-year trophies. This is because the greatest problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to Love God and others as Jesus loves her (John 13:34)." (pg. 18)

WOW!!! What conviction! What humility that brings to ponder that my greatest problem is not that I completely fail at mothering many days... or that I can't keep my house clean with toddlers... it's that I cannot love God or others apart from Christ! Instead of focusing on all of my failures and struggles as a mom, I need to focus on God and how I stand before Him.

Because of Christ: FORGIVEN!

I cannot wait to delve into this book and learn more about applying the truth of the gospel to motherhood. My heart longs to grow in this and to be found faithful!