This month we are celebrating the delivery of our new ‘baby’ over at The Pregnancy Companion. For the past two years we have labored over a message of grace for new moms and we are finally able to share it with the world. Next week, The Baby Companion: A Faith-Filled Guide for Your Journey through Baby’s First Year
You’ll see a lot of activity here and over at the other blog surrounding the book. But we realize that many of you are not new moms and may be done with the baby’s first year seasons of your life. Because I’m getting the chance to share one of my greatest passions through the release of the book, I’ve invited our contributing writers to share their greatest passions this month. All month long you’ll be hearing from the girls here at Grace for Moms and finding out what makes their hearts beat. We hope this insight will be like fuel on the passions of your heart. We pray that reading about what these women are committed to {besides motherhood, of course} will encourage you to pursue or simply discover your deepest delights.
After struggling with infertility and multiple miscarriages, I entered motherhood with hopes of savoring every.single.moment with my little miracle. Naive to the pressures that come with parenting from its very beginning, I was surprised {read: shocked} by how much said pressures overshadowed the bliss I thought I’d find in motherhood. I was weary, frustrated and defeated early on in our journey through the first year. I doubted God’s blessing wondering if He had meant to give this baby to someone more fit to be a mother. Then one day, as I was beating myself up over my inability to achieve perfection I heard the Lord say,
“I have given you everything you need to mother this child who is uniquely created to bless your life. My Holy Spirit is the perfect guide to understand what I am calling you to do as a mother.”
And ever since, although there hasn’t been perfection, there has been peace. There has been trust in Him and in myself. There has been freedom in knowing I don’t have to do things the way everyone else does. I simply have to listen to what He would say for my baby. . .for my family.
The same goes for motherhood throughout the whole of your child’s life. If we can grasp this truth now, we’ll be much better off for years to come.
Friends, this is what I am most passionate about. This is the message that makes me write these posts and manage these blogs. This is the truth that led us to write these books. I want every new mama to experience grace along her journey so she can savor every.single.moment. I want her child to benefit from a mom who walks in freedom from pressures and guilt. For that woman – that peaceful, confident mother – will be best equipped to lavish love upon and gently guide her children.
What do you think GRACE looks like for new moms?
Psst! Join us over on the blog this week as we begin the book launch celebration. We’re starting off with a bang. A massive baby bundle giveaway with over $500 in prizes for baby and mom!!
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