Starting in January, I will be hosting a book study of A Mother’s Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to your Life and Peace to Your Home. I will post a new discussion each Saturday in January & February so that you have the information to reflect on as you are renewing your spirit on the Sabbath. Take advantage of the New Year to make a fresh, God-centered start!
More info on the book from the publisher:
How to bring peace to your home: On January 1, 2000, Holly Pierlot pounded her fist on the kitchen table and yelled at her husband, “I can’t take it anymore!”
Motherhood and homeschooling had overwhelmed her. The house was dirty, the laundry undone. Holly felt frustrated, discouraged, and alone. She couldn’t find time to snuggle and have fun with her five children or to go out with her husband. Yes, she loved Philip and she did love God, but she had come to resent Philip’s freedom and she almost never found time for prayer.
Today, everything’s better.
Holly still homeschools, but the house is cleaner, she gets more done, and the kids are happier. There’s less stress, less strife, and less housework. Holly’s been healed of past wounds that troubled her soul and her marriage. Best of all, she spends at least an hour each day in prayer and time each evening with Philip.
Holly brought about these changes with what she calls her Mother’s Rule of Life, a pattern for living that combines the spiritual wisdom of the monastery with the practical wisdom of motherhood.
Holly’s Rule is not just another set of schedules; it’s a way for Christian mothers to answer God’s call to holiness.
With the help of your own Rule, you can get control of your own household, grow closer to God, come to love your husband more, and raise up good Christian children. In these wise and practical pages, Holly shows you how.
Do you want to be a better wife and mother? To have more order in your life? To grow in union with God? Are you desperate yet?
With your own Mother’s Rule of Life, you’ll transform motherhood and its burdens into the joyful vocation it’s meant to be. Learn from Holly Pierlot how to craft a Rule that’s right for you and your family. Then use that Rule to help God draw you, your husband, and each of your children into Heaven!
I wanted to announce it before Christmas so that if you were interested, you could add the book to your wish list :). You could also save up your SwagBucks to help buy a copy. There is still time before January and Amazon ships pretty quick!
There is also a workbook, which is completely optional for this study, but it does have additional information and forms for discernment which are useful (especially if you are a list person like me!).
I hope that you’ll join me as I get my mental house in order in 2010!
Amanda
14 December 2009 at 7:34 AM (14 years ago)this sounds like a great idea! I think I will take part for sure. Need to start out the SAHM thing on a good foot. 🙂
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