Meditations for New Moms: Reflections, Scripture, and Wisdom for Mommy's First Year

How does a new mom face the wonder and the wear that a baby brings? What happens to the woman she was? Is it normal to laugh and cry simultaneously?

Sandra Drescher-Lehman, in her disarmingly forthright way, gives language to the eternally long hours of being with babies, the holy moments that change exhaustion to exhilaration, the private fears, that sudden gratitude for one’s own mother.

Drescher-Lehman’s own hands and heart are deep in this subject. She is a writer and mom to two preschool...