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Summary: TheStepfamilyLife - A Book of Stepmom Prayers
Review: In her latest book stepmom Karon Goodman discusses how stepmoms can find strength through prayer. Written from a Christian perspective, the book is divided into four sections - beginning, struggling, coping and growing. Each section reviews common five emotions felt by stepmoms, discusses Biblical scriptures relating to those emotions, and offers questions to stimulate thinking and prayer. Comments from real-life stepmoms reflecting on their spiritual insights, struggles and triumphs make the book down-to-earth and ground it in the reality stepmoms face. At a slim 132 pages, the book is a quick read. However, this is a lot to absorb, and readers may want to pace themselves through one emotional highlight per day as a devotional - in 20 days you will be through the entire book!
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Summary: When those waves of emotional stress come, read this book!
Review: In my own stepmom experience, storms of anger, envy, fear, insecurity and despair came all too often to disable my effectiveness, not only as a stepmom, but in work, friendships and other family roles as well. When I read Karon Goodman's newest book--A Stepmom's Book of Prayer--I found I wasn't alone. This book takes stepmom's to the throne of God, the One who has the wisdom and the power to help us persevere, maintain our integrity, and grow in our own personhood in spite of so many seemingly endless trials.Goodman's book is a shopping list of things we stepmoms can trust to God and allow Him to work on, first and foremost in our own hearts. She shows us how we can depend on our Heavenly Father to walk with us through every stepfamily dis-ease, and how He can keep us on track by supplying us with those vital ingredients of honesty, courage, understanding, forgiveness, and even joy. Goodman states, "When we understand how protected we are with His words of truth, the chaos others cause becomes far less important than we thought it was. It is still real and painful, of course, but our path is through God's footsteps, in holding onto Him through the storm and not wallowing in what hurts."--How true! Goodman honestly and caringly shows stepmoms how their whole perspective can change when we depend on God for strength, courage, guidance, and love. Stepmom's will want to read this book again and again, every time a new wave of emotional stress hits, to re-focus on the Source, and have their hope renewed.
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