There are two books I read last year that really stuck with me. They were both gifts from my Mom Vitale and Mom Tuttle and what inspirational gifts they were! One is a daily devotional, Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman, which my mother in law gave me. The daily readings are a combination of scripture passages and modern works that serve as great examples to better understand scripture by giving you samples of God's work in everyday modern life.
As an example, a portion of the September 17th reading states,
"Seeing God in everything is the only thing that will make me loving and patient with people who annoy and trouble me. Then I will see others as the instruments God uses to accomplish His tender and wise purpose for me, and I will even find myself inwardly thanking them for the blessing they have become to me. Nothing but seeing God will completely put an end to all complaining and thoughts of rebellion."Hannah Whitall Smith
Mothers Together is the second book I wanted to recommend. Written by Ruth Bell Graham and Gigi Graham Tchividjian, a mother and daughter, the book recounts many familiar stories of motherhood and displays the dynamics in watching your own child become a mother as well as looking back on how our mothers cared for us. There is a spotlight on the joys of being a mother as well as the difficulties we all run into and how God shows his love by helping us through it all.
~Al
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