Book Review: Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full by Gloria Furman

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I was given this book when I graduated from college. I know, sounds like a strange gift; but I was pregnant with our first when I walked across the stage to receive my diploma! This is a book every momma needs to read, especially those with little ones who are just starting out. I definitely should have read this book when I got it instead of five years later!

This book is not a fake encouragement to moms that they're doing a good job no matter what. This is for the mom who wants a Gospel-centered motherhood. Gloria Furman dedicates the pages in her book to Christ and not us - isn't that the best place to put emphasis?! Her words are challenging, and Scripture is always convicting.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from her book:

“The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ.”

"As Christian mothers God calls us to live with something we can see only with spiritual eyes - eternity."

"Hope in God's future grace through Jesus Christ is what binds a mother's heart together when all she feels like doing is falling apart into a million pieces."

"A mother's Spirit-empowered sacrificial love is what enables her to willingly complicate her life for the sake of her children."

"Only the blazing light of the gospel can dispel our dark doubts and illumine the sin we need to repent of. Through the light of the gospel we see how God's kindness leads up to repentance. And, by his grace, God forces our frustrating circumstances to bow to his gospel purposes in our life. God uses these situations to grow us in Christlikeness, get sick of our sin, and teach our heart to yearn for future grace."

And ALL of chapter 9 entitled "The Fictitious Mother of The Year"...

Motherhood is part of the sanctification process in my life, and this book is wonderful reminder of this. Gloria Furman is quite the amusing character! She will keep you smiling through the deep truths she shares from her heart.

Check out her website here.

Order her book from Christian Book Distributers.

Thanks for reading! 💜

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