Your days are full, you're tired, and you're craving quiet for your soul. You're not alone.
If days filled with obligations and never-ending to-do lists leave you feeling anxious and overwhelmed, you can find the peace your soul longs for. In Settle My Soul, authors Karen Ehman and Ruth Schwenk invite you to carve out a few moments in your day to deepen your relationship with the Lord through 100 encouraging devotions.
Whether you're a working professional, a wife, a mom, a sister, an aunt, a daughter-in-law, or any combination of these, your life is busy. And no matter what stage of life you may find yourself in, what your hurried and overcrowded heart needs most is rest. Beyond time-management skills or tips for worrying less, you need a few minutes to connect with God's heart.
Karen and Ruth are women who understand all that you're juggling, and they desire for you to experience the refreshment that comes only from the Lord. In just a few minutes out of your day, you can connect with God, set aside your busyness and worries, center your thoughts on Him and His Word, and restore your peace of mind. Each of the 100 devotions in Settle My Soul includes a brief but meaningful devotional message, applicable scripture, guided prayer, and reflection questions. Throughout the book you'll also find journaling pages for deeper reflection.
Your life is loud. But if you will just press pause for a few minutes each day, you can discover what Jesus longs to give you: His peace.

Settle My Soul: 100 Quiet Moments to Meet with Jesus (Pressing Pause)

Religion & Spirituality

Ehman, Karen

Schwenk, Ruth

Christian Books & Bibles

Zondervan

As a mom, you want to give your best to your family. Motherhood is incredibly rewarding, yet its challenges can leave you feeling anxious, inadequate, and overwhelmed with mom guilt.Trusted author Ruth Schwenk of Pressing Pause and The Better Mom blog will help you learn to give yourself grace as you grow in wisdom with The Better Mom Devotional.
As a busy mom of four kids, Ruth understands the stress of raising a family and trying to do it all perfectly, but she has uncovered a secret: becoming a better mom starts not with what you are doing but with who God is inviting you to become.
In The Better Mom Devotional, 100 devotions filled with scripture, prayers, and reflection questions will help you discover:
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<li>How God uses motherhood to change you from the inside out</li>
<li>Intentional ways to deepen your faith in any season of parenting</li>
<li>The true calling of motherhood: training, disciplining, and loving your children well</li>
<li>The life-giving impact of honest, loving friendships</li>
</ul>
With Ruth’s encouragement, you can overcome mom guilt, stop trying to be the perfect mom, let go of the endless to-do list of motherhood, and experience the most challenging but rewarding adventure yet: becoming The Better Mom.

The Better Mom Devotional: Shaping Our Hearts as We Shape Our Homes

Moms have been hoodwinked—tricked into believing lies that keep them from not only enjoying motherhood, but forging friendships with other moms who might tackle the tasks of motherhood differently. Myths such as “Mothering is natural, easy, and instinctive” cause moms to feel like failures if they have questions or apprehensions in raising their kids. Operating from the premise that “The way I mother is the right (and only) way” puts up fences between moms instead of building bridges of encouragement between them. Lies such as “I am my child’s choices” tempt moms to mistakenly believe that if their child makes a wrong choice then they, in turn, must be a bad mom.
In their encouraging “we’ve been there” style, Karen Ehman and Ruth Schwenk enable mothers to:
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<li>Identify the ten myths of motherhood our current culture perpetuates</li>
<li>Replace the lies with the truth of what God says in the Bible about mothering</li>
<li>Acquire practical tools to help them form new and improved thought patterns and healthy behaviors</li>
<li>Forge healthy, supportive relationships with other moms of all ages and stages</li>
<li>Confidently embrace the calling of motherhood as they care for their families in their own unique way</li>
</ul>
 A six-session video Bible study for group or individual use is also available.

Hoodwinked: Ten Myths Moms Believe and Why We All Need To Knock It Off

Mothering is messy. Our joy and hope in raising children doesn’t change the reality that being a mom can be frustrating, stressful, and tiring. But just as God is using us to shape our children, God is using our children and motherhood to shape us. 
In The Better Mom, author Ruth Schwenk, herself a mother of four children, encourages us with the good news that there is more to being a mom than the extremes of striving for perfection or simply embracing the mess. We don’t need to settle for surviving our kids’ childhood. We can grow through it.
With refreshing and heartfelt honesty Ruth emboldens moms to:
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<li>Find freedom and walk confidently in purpose</li>
<li>Create a God-honoring home environment </li>
<li>Overcome unhealthy and destructive emotions such as anger, anxiety, and more</li>
<li>Avoid glorifying the mess of mom-ing or idolizing perfection</li>
<li>Cultivate life-giving friendships </li>
</ul>
At the heart of The Better Mom is the message that Jesus calls us to live not a weary life, but a worthy life. We don’t have to settle for either being apathetic or struggling to be perfect. Both visions of motherhood go too far. Ruth offers a better option. She says, “It’s okay to come as we are, but what we’re called to do and be is far too important to stay there! The way to becoming a better mom starts not with what we are doing, but with who God is inviting us to become."

The Better Mom: Growing in Grace between Perfection and the Mess

Parenting & Relationships

Kids bickering? Schedule jam-packed? Dishes and laundry both piled up high? Perhaps it’s time you pressed pause.
Whether you’re juggling a career, kids’ schedules, and church commitments or you’re covered in spit-up and anxious about what the next eighteen years might hold, you can carve out a few quiet moments to rejuvenate your spirit.
Pressing Pause offers you a calm way to start your day, to refresh yourself in Jesus and drink deeply of His presence so that you are ready to pour out love, time, and energy into the people who matter most to you.
These 100 encouraging devotions for moms will help you begin each day with Scripture, drawing on God’s power, ingesting His Word, and learning practical ways to love and serve more like His Son.
Just a few minutes each day can help you center your heart and mind on what God has for you as His beloved daughter. So resist the rush. Halt the hustle. Press pause and find some calm in the chaos.
Karen Ehman is a Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker, a New York Times bestselling author, and a writer for Encouragement for Today, an online devotional that reaches more than 1 million women daily. She has written nine books. Connect with her at KarenEhman.com.
Ruth Schwenk is a pastor’s wife, mom of four energetic kids, lover of coffee, and dreamer of big dreams. She is the creator of TheBetterMom.com, and along with her husband, Patrick, ForTheFamily.org.

Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus

Including 100 devotions for families, Faith Forward Family Devotional by parenting authors Patrick and Ruth Schwenk equip you to raise faith-filled kids who know, love, and live for God.
You've passed down to your kids your last name, your love, and maybe your sense of humor or favorite hobbies. But have you passed down the most important thing: your faith?
Somewhere between diapers and sippy cups, piano lessons and soccer practice, dating and college searches, even the most well-intentioned family can lose sight of creating a God-centered home. As parents of four, pastor Patrick Schwenk and his wife, Ruth, of The Better Mom blog, understand the challenges—and importance—of raising faith-filled kids.
In Faith Forward Family Devotional, Patrick and Ruth help you pass on your faith with devotions you can do at your own pace as a family. Each devotion features a Bible passage, a teaching that's applicable for kids of any age, key ideas to learn about God and His character, questions to spark family discussion, and a prayer. Faith Forward Family Devotional is aimed primarily at families of kids ages 8–12 but also includes ideas for activities for younger children and recommendations for further study for older kids, so the whole family can join in the devotional gathering.
Faith Forward Family Devotional helps you grow closer to your kids as they grow closer to God. Whatever season of parenting you are in, sharing this devotional time together will help your children nourish a faith that lasts a lifetime.

Faith Forward Family Devotional: 100 Devotions

Schwenk, Patrick

According to Karen Ehman, popular author and speaker with Proverbs 31 Ministries, and Ruth Schwenk, of www.thebettermom.com, it’s time to stop the "Mommy Wars."
Today's wives and mothers have been hoodwinked; convinced that serving their family is a subservient and antiquated role. Because of culture, family, friends, or lack of biblical teaching, many moms miss how valuable and powerful their calling really is. Some have bought into the pressure to be "Supermom." Others have believed the myth that they can "do it all" and do it perfectly.
This six-session video-based study (DVD/digital video sold separately) will encourage and inspire women to embrace their roles as mothers wholeheartedly yet realistically, whether they work outside the home, have a home business, or are stay-at-home moms. Mothers will find a fresh new vision for an age-old calling as they tackle the challenges and embrace the blessings of motherhood.
Sessions include:
<ol>
<li>Build Bridges, Not Fences: When Others Mother Differently</li>
<li>Mothering Matters: Seeing the Hard Years as the Heart Years</li>
<li>At the Top of the Tightrope: When You Try to Do It All</li>
<li>Pressing the Pause Button: Taking Your Schedule from Racing to Rest</li>
<li>In Armor of Their Own: On Revealing the Picture God's Painting</li>
<li>Raising Children on Your Knees: When Your Child Makes a Bad Choice</li>
</ol>
Designed for use with the Hoodwinked Video Study (sold separately).

Hoodwinked Bible Study Guide: Ten Myths Moms Believe and Why We All Need to Knock It Off

Family Relationships

HarperChristian Resources

According to Karen Ehman, popular author and speaker with Proverbs 31 Ministries, and Ruth Schwenk, of www.thebettermom.com, it’s time to stop the "Mommy Wars."Today's wives and mothers have been hoodwinked; convinced that serving their family is a subservient and antiquated role. Because of culture, family, friends, or lack of biblical teaching, many moms miss how valuable and powerful their calling really is. Some have bought into the pressure to be "Supermom." Others have believed the myth that they can "do it all" and do it perfectly.This six-session video-based study (guide sold separately) will encourage and inspire women to embrace their roles as mothers wholeheartedly yet realistically, whether they work outside the home, have a home business, or are stay-at-home moms. Mothers will find a fresh new vision for an age-old calling as they tackle the challenges and embrace the blessings of motherhood.Sessions include:Build Bridges, Not Fences: When Others Mother DifferentlyMothering Matters: Seeing the Hard Years as the Heart YearsAt the Top of the Tightrope: When You Try to Do It AllPressing the Pause Button: Taking Your Schedule from Racing to RestIn Armor of Their Own: On Revealing the Picture God's PaintingRaising Children on Your Knees: When Your Child Makes a Bad ChoiceDesigned for use with the Hoodwinked Study Guide (sold separately).

Hoodwinked Video Study: Ten Myths Moms Believe and Why We All Need to Knock It Off

When Life is Filled with All the Things,Begin Your Days with the Most Important Thing of AllLife is just .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. a lot. Relationships are hard. Responsibilities are piled high. And it seems like all the things are distracting you from the very best things of all. There's little time left for yourself--or for connecting with Jesus. No wonder you feel anxious in your mind and hurried in your heart. You desperately long for calm amidst your clamoring duties, stacked schedule, and life's unexpected circumstances. But where do you begin? More than anything else, your heart needs a refreshing encounter with God each day. Trusting God in All the Things offers women like you a way forward so you can experience the confident calm you crave.&nbsp;These 90 encouraging devotions will help you face life with God's peace and renewed strength.Start your day here, on these pages, where you'll find the calming reassurance of God, who is the only One who can truly be trusted in all the things.

Trusting God in All the Things: 90 Devotions for Finding Peace in Your Every Day

Karen Ehman

Bethany House Publishers

Bedtime Family Devotional: 90 Devotions to Help Your Family Love and Live for God

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