When Mothering Is Hard and No One Sees: Where Gritty Meets Glorious in God's Eternal Plan for Moms

Several years ago, Shalene Roberts sat with her two young children under the age of three, wrestling with thoughts about motherhood and wondering why it was so desperately hard. Pulling out her phone, she poured out her thoughts in a blog post entitled “When Mothering Is Hard and No One Sees.” Unexpectedly, those honest musings went viral, and that heartfelt post has had more than 630,000 views.

Now a mother of five, Shalene understands that women everywhere struggle with the all-consuming s...