Fresh Out of Amazing: Opening Your Heart to God's Unexpected Invitation

Thacker, creator of the blog Mothers of Daughters, writes about feeling as though she is "fresh out of amazing," asserting that feeling that way is perfectly fine. Thacker's text is directed at encouraging mothers who are exhausted and running on empty. She starts by laying out her own struggles of living a life of constant action and striving to maintain a debilitating, unrealistic level of perfection. Thacker then reveals a more holy way to approach this life on both workaday and spiritual levels, offering the text as a primer to lead other mothers in the same direction. Instead of encouraging readers to do more, Thacker's voice is calm and reasonable, beckoning women to seek a slower pace, a holier path, and a relationally richer existence. Readers will laugh and cry over Thacker's personal travails and then potentially begin to dismantle their own levels of self-imposed entanglements in favor of a more life-giving existence. (Sept.)