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Mommy Time: 90 Devotions for New Moms
Every new mom experiences a myriad of emotions—joy, love, the frightening, yet terrific reality that you are now responsible for a tiny little dependent. And in the midst of all these emotions—and burpings, feedings, diaper changes, and quick naps—moms need to be reminded of God’s awesomeness. In this gift-like book, new mom and best-selling author Sarah Arthur writes about how delivering her son three weeks early reminds her of God’s timing, how her trip home from the hospital with her newborn son tucked away in his car seat points to God being in control even when she is fearful, and how a mom’s concern over friendly strangers touching her young child in the grocery store also reminds her that people are sent to help. In a fresh and contemplative style, Arthur sits alongside Mom and helps her understand that God is in control . . . even when her life feels drastically out of control. This devotional will be a great companion for Mom during the small amount of time she gets to sit and be still and think of the truths of God’s word, while relating it to her new favorite subject—her baby.
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Mommy Time: 90 Devotions for New Moms
Every new mom experiences a myriad of emotions—joy, love, the frightening, yet terrific reality that you are now responsible for a tiny little dependent. And in the midst of all these emotions—and burpings, feedings, diaper changes, and quick naps—moms need to be reminded of God’s awesomeness. In this gift-like book, new mom and best-selling author Sarah Arthur writes about how delivering her son three weeks early reminds her of God’s timing, how her trip home from the hospital with her newborn son tucked away in his car seat points to God being in control even when she is fearful, and how a mom’s concern over friendly strangers touching her young child in the grocery store also reminds her that people are sent to help. In a fresh and contemplative style, Arthur sits alongside Mom and helps her understand that God is in control . . . even when her life feels drastically out of control. This devotional will be a great companion for Mom during the small amount of time she gets to sit and be still and think of the truths of God’s word, while relating it to her new favorite subject—her baby.
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Mommy Time: 90 Devotions for New Moms

Mommy Time: 90 Devotions for New Moms

by Sarah Arthur
Mommy Time: 90 Devotions for New Moms
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Mommy Time: 90 Devotions for New Moms

by Sarah Arthur

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Every new mom experiences a myriad of emotions—joy, love, the frightening, yet terrific reality that you are now responsible for a tiny little dependent. And in the midst of all these emotions—and burpings, feedings, diaper changes, and quick naps—moms need to be reminded of God’s awesomeness. In this gift-like book, new mom and best-selling author Sarah Arthur writes about how delivering her son three weeks early reminds her of God’s timing, how her trip home from the hospital with her newborn son tucked away in his car seat points to God being in control even when she is fearful, and how a mom’s concern over friendly strangers touching her young child in the grocery store also reminds her that people are sent to help. In a fresh and contemplative style, Arthur sits alongside Mom and helps her understand that God is in control . . . even when her life feels drastically out of control. This devotional will be a great companion for Mom during the small amount of time she gets to sit and be still and think of the truths of God’s word, while relating it to her new favorite subject—her baby.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781414374758
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Publication date: 04/01/2013
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

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Mommy Time

90 Devotions for New Moms
By SARAH ARTHUR

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Copyright © 2013 Sarah Arthur
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4143-7475-8

Chapter One

Into My Arms

* * *

I was thrust into your arms at my birth. You have been my God from the moment I was born.

PSALM 22:10

WELL, HE'S HERE. Our son has arrived. We didn't know he would be a he until my husband peered over the curtain of my unplanned C-section, paused for a moment, and then said hoarsely, "It's a boy?" (In the mess of emotions and bodily ick, he wasn't sure.) I was mostly delirious, so all I remember is a red, gooey, unhappy creature held out for me to see and my husband vanishing to hover over our new son while the baby was weighed and cleaned up. An angry squawk came from that direction—our son's first cry.

"It's okay, sweetheart," I croaked, even though I myself was totally unhinged.

Not a very illustrious beginning. But he's here. That's all we care about.

I won't go into the details of labor right now: everyone has their awful or amazing story. (Just hope my thirty-plus hours never happen to you.) We women enter the Labor Zone, aware of nothing but our bodies and the occasional annoyance ("What's that beeping? I don't care if it's someone's life support: turn it off!"). Time and other details seem to vanish into the haze of pain. Decisions are made, familiar and unfamiliar faces come and go, our bodies perform astonishing feats that we have not invented. The fleeting thought crosses our minds that we will never be normal again. And yet somehow none of it matters. Only the baby matters.

And now he's here. Pink and clean, wrapped in a blanket and sporting a striped hat that makes him look like a gnome. He blinks with unfocused eyes at the lights, the monitors, the figures coming and going, my looming face. All his movements are in slow motion, like he has found himself in a strange dream. Eventually the excitement wears off, we attempt a feeding, and then he sleeps, nestled against my neck, skin on skin.

After all this waiting, he has made his grand entrance, and I finally get to hold him in my arms. I get to inspect his comical face, his fringe of reddish hair (which looks like neither of his parents'), his little limbs and digits. Not many hours ago all this was inside of me. Totally surreal.

On his ankle he wears a tiny plastic band bearing our name, claiming him as ours, belonging to us. And yet, everything I know about my Christian faith tells me that this child is not really mine. As the Bible says in Psalm 22:10, the arms that really hold my child—the arms into which my child has been so unceremoniously shoved—are not mine, but God's. The one who created my son, the one who calls him into a life of faith, the one who gave up his own Son, Jesus—that's the one who truly holds him now.

Which is a good thing, because at present all I want to do is sleep.

(Continues...)


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Table of Contents

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................ix
CRAVING MOMMY TIME?....................xi
1 - Into My Arms....................1
2 - Total Strangers....................4
3 - Out of My Element....................6
4 - Mystery Baby....................8
5 - What's in a Name?....................10
6 - Heading Home....................13
7 - And Then There Were Three....................16
8 - So Much for the Dream....................19
9 - The Gift of Time....................21
10 - Mere Mortals....................24
11 - Sleeping like a Baby....................27
12 - Hooked....................29
13 - Crying Out....................32
14 - Relentless....................35
15 - The True Source....................37
16 - The Wisdom of Humility....................40
17 - Free Agent....................43
18 - Mom in Training....................45
19 - Before You Were Born....................48
20 - Woven Together....................51
21 - Becoming One....................54
22 - Not My Own....................57
23 - Calm in the Storm....................60
24 - Quiet Time....................63
25 - While You Were Eating....................66
26 - Cultivating Mindfulness....................68
27 - Hear Our Prayer....................71
28 - Three-Breath Prayer....................74
29 - Thirst....................77
30 - Embodiment....................79
31 - Endurance Test....................82
32 - Matter Matters....................85
33 - The Ick Factor....................88
34 - Mommy Spa....................90
35 - Big Bad World....................93
36 - It Happened to Me....................96
37 - God's Compassion....................99
38 - Never Forgotten....................101
39 - Tears of Joy....................104
40 - Born Again....................107
41 - The Long Good-Bye....................110
42 - Good Medicine....................113
43 - Asking for Help....................115
44 - A Job Well Done....................117
45 - Good Enough....................120
46 - Due Date....................123
47 - On Call....................126
48 - "I Love You, But ..."....................129
49 - Change of Plans....................132
50 - Rescued....................135
51 - Here to Serve....................137
52 - Arranging the Details....................139
53 - Right There with Us....................141
54 - The Form of a Doula....................143
55 - The First Birth....................146
56 - Self-Emptying....................149
57 - Unclean?....................152
58 - This Is My Body....................155
59 - Battling Bitterness....................158
60 - My Baby?....................160
61 - True Family....................163
62 - Crowd of Witnesses....................166
63- Unshakable....................169
64 - A Passion or Deliverance?....................172
65 - Always Watching....................175
66 - Coming Home....................177
67 - Child of the Promise....................180
68 - The Job of Savior....................183
69 - Not So Special?....................186
70 - Creators vs. Consumers....................189
71 - The Right Path....................192
72 - God Calling....................195
73 - Missing Out?....................197
74 - Barefoot, Pregnant, and in the Kitchen?....................200
75 - With All Your Mind....................203
76 - Productivity....................206
77 - Working Women....................209
78 - Unfailing Love....................212
79 - I Surrender....................215
80 - Saved through Childbearing?....................217
81 - Labor Pains....................220
82 - What He Will Become....................223
83 - Real Love....................226
84 - When Your Children Ask....................229
85 - God in the Everyday....................232
86 - Never Too Early....................235
87 - Son of Adam....................238
88 - From Generation to Generation....................241
89 - Leaving a Legacy....................244
90 - I Remember....................247
ABOUT THE AUTHOR....................251
MORE RESOURCES FOR MOMMY TIME....................255
SCRIPTURE INDEX....................257
NOTES....................259
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