Heart of My Heart: 365 Reflections on the Magnitude and Meaning of Motherhood: A Devotional

by Kristin Armstrong

Overview

Whether God is using Kristin to raise children or the children to grow Kristin, He is present in every moment and every page. This warm, real, and insightful devotional celebrates the journey of growth mothers take with their children. Since their births, Kristin realized she has "discovered more about myself and my God in the pursuit of discovering my children." Each entry in this 365-day devotional contains a Bible verse and a personal reflection from Kristin. It is on this intimate, daily walk that mothers can gain the courage to rely on God and emerge as a better woman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446561693
Publisher:	FaithWords
Publication date:	04/09/2010
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Kristin Armstrong is a mother of three, a runner, a writer, and a speaker. She is the author of Happily Ever After, Strength for the Climb, Work in Progress, Heart of my Heart, and Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run. She is a contributing editor for Runner's World magazine and writes a monthly column for Tribeza. Her work has also appeared in USA Today, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parent: Wise Austin, and Glamour. Kristin lives in Austin, Texas and Santa Barbara, California with her family.

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Heart of My Heart

365 Reflections on the Magnitude and Meaning of Motherhood A Devotional

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By Armstrong, Kristin

FaithWords

Copyright © 2010 Armstrong, Kristin
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780446561693

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JANUARY 1

The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

GALATIANS 5:6

There are a million ways to fall short, to miss the mark, to mess up, to handle it wrong, to miss the point. We can expend our energy in the pursuit of being the perfect mother and come up empty, or we can realize that the only pursuit worth the effort is the desire to be good enough. There are a million ways to be good enough, the first of which is to keep trying. And that’s what we’re here to do, together, recommitting ourselves each day to the heartfelt goal of doing the best we can with what we have in each moment, in the raising of our children.

It’s clear we don’t always have what it takes to transition from moment to moment, challenge to challenge, with wisdom and grace. This is not to be taken negatively, but rather as a relief—we simply can’t do it on our own; we must stay connected to the Source. He alone makes up for our shortcomings; He alone magnifies our efforts; He alone makes us sufficient. Our children need to see that we have a desperate need to remain joined with the Father. Only by seeing that in us will they learn to recognize and nourish that need in themselves.

We are going to walk together for a whole year. We will emerge as better mothers, more faith-filled women. It isn’t as overwhelming as it seems, if we can return to this verse again and again:The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. That’s it. If we can hold fast to this foundation, the rest of the details will fall into place.

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Editorial Reviews

"Happily Ever After is a profoundly honest and intensely personal reflection."—Tammy Maltby, cohost of four-time Emmy-nominated Aspiring Women and author of Confessions of a Good Christian Girl and Lifegiving

"Encouraging, honest, comforting, helpful. But most of all Happily Ever After draws you to the One who can give what others cannot. What a welcome resource to help give stability and peace."—H. Norman Wright, licensed marriage therapist and award-winning and bestselling author of more than seventy books

"Kristin Armstrong has walked the broken road where heartache intersects with grace. Her life lessons can benefit all of us."—Karen Kingsbury, New York Times bestselling author of This Side of Heaven

From the Publisher

"Kristin Armstrong has walked the broken road where heartache intersects with grace. Her life lessons can benefit all of us."

Karen Kingsbury

"Encouraging, honest, comforting, helpful. But most of all Happily Ever After draws you to the One who can give what others cannot. What a welcome resource to help give stability and peace."

H. Norman Wright

"Happily Ever After is a profoundly honest and intensely personal reflection."

Tammy Maltby