Jen Hatmaker is the author of Interrupted and Seven, and for those who follow her work, you’ll be excited to read her newest release For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards. I do have a copy to giveaway too!
I’ve been so excited to be on her launch team for this release, and you will love it.
I really, really love her kitchen too.
You can read all about the book on the For the Love website and watch the book trailer.
For all who have ever felt like not enough…
Jen pours out grace and offers encouragement. For the Love is an invitation to let go of our complicated striving, and instead find meaning in loving well.
She encourages us to take ‘off the beam’ anything piled there out of guilt or unreasonable expectations. Freedom.
Her best advice is for her kids- but I love it.
Yes. I really think its that simple too.
“The breadth of God’s family is mercifully wide.”
So let’s be good to each other, and also good to ourselves.
You will laugh because she talks about turning forty, leggings as pants- (a no), her spicy family, difficult people, surviving school in a Pinterest age, her no drama forcefield. One of my favorite chapters is- Dear Christians, Please Stop Being Crappy. She’s funny that way.
A series of chapters sprinkled through the book are sarcastic thank-you notes on such topics as instagram filters, the school pick-up line, Target, sick husbands, skinny jeans, and Taco Bell. (Those should not have been referenced together- skinny jeans and Taco Bell.)
I love the beam analogy in the book.
What needs to come off your beam this season? (Me- thinking the food things I have to bring for events needs to be homemade. I’m a horrible cook/baker. I’m going to the store from now on. Off the beam- freedom.)
Comment here and be entered to win a copy of the book.
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I wasn’t on the launch team but I did have the opportunity to read this amazing book earlier this summer. It’s fantastic. Jen has a way of drawing you in with her humor and wit and keeping you there to learn some great Jesus lessons. I loved it (and all her fashion tips). 😉
crotchless yoga pants 🙂
This sounds like a great read! Thanks for the chance to win!
It is a great read and funny 🙂
Looking forward to reading it after your and others comments.
It’s another good one! I love that it’s funny too.
I love Jen Hatmaker! She has a great sense of humor and keeps it very real. 🙂 I also really enjoy your writing, Lisa! Your words are always filled with grace! Thank you for sharing!
You are such a great encourager Lacey, thank you! I love those two things about her too, that she keeps it real and is so funny.
Hi Lisa,
I loved Seven. She seems so jubilant and exuberant, doesn’t she?
Yes! Such a great picture. This one is FUNNY! and encouraging.
I like her kitchen AND I also like the cover. Thanks for the review, girl.
Me too!
I am a massive people pleaser. It is a struggle for me so often to simply say no when I need to. This causes me stress and really eats away at my time, my life and definitely my peace. I am definitely going to work on being a people blesser instead.
I really struggle with this too! This book was great encouragement from it 🙂