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God Is Still Good is the latest title by mother and author, Katie Faris. While there are many titles available on motherhood from a biblical perspective, there are few that address the sorrow and grief that often accompany this season. We’ve known since sin entered the world in Genesis 3 that motherhood would be hard and painful in more ways than one. Yet in literature available for Christian moms, this reality can often be missing or minimized. I’m grateful to Katie for writing God Is Still Good because it is needed encouragement for Christian moms and for Christians in general as they minister to moms.
The book begins with Katie’s acknowledgment that motherhood often doesn’t go as expected. In the first chapter she wrote, “God’s word speaks to all of us, telling us the pain we experience in labor and delivery—or the adoption process—is only a foretaste of the particular suffering a mother endures. Within the Bible’s pages, we discover truth that is sufficient to explain our suffering as moms and sustain us in it, even when our contexts vary. The Bible assures believing mothers that our pain isn’t in vain and we won’t always suffer. No matter how confusing the middle parts of our stories seem, no matter how bitter they taste, we look forward to a very good ending. No matter how tangled and rocky, tear-filled and, yes, even bloody, these paths may be, they lead us to a glorious place,” (pg. 28).
Katie uses the rest of the book to point readers to Jesus and help them see how He is sufficient for even the hardest trials moms may endure. While reading God Is Still Good, I felt that I had an understanding and compassionate companion in Katie as she is no stranger to hardship in motherhood. She shares her own stories of grief in motherhood as her children were diagnosed with a rare medical condition and she suffered the loss of a baby through miscarriage.
I appreciate that she included all types of moms and various scenarios in her illustrations because it seems that Christian books about motherhood often neglect these realities that are present within the church. My motherhood journey began with postpartum depression and has included miscarriage and I’m thankful that Katie acknowledged these painful experiences within the pages of her book.
God Is Still Good is a lovely primer on how to suffer with hope in the trials of motherhood. If you are a mom who has experienced sorrow in motherhood or even just struggle with the day to day challenges it presents, I highly encourage you to purchase a copy of this book.
I received God is Still Good compliments of Crossway in exchange for my honest review.
