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The Missional Mom: Living With Purpose At Home & In The World (2010)

by Helen Lee(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0802437869 (ISBN13: 9780802437860)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Moody Publishers

review 1: This book deserves more than three stars, but somewhere in the midst of it, I lost any mimesis I could have held. I won't say I lost interest in it, because the rational part of me still wanted to read it, but I guess the other part of me--not irrationally--realized that now is not this book's moment for me. I would like it to have been an easier read... that is, parts of it were very easy because as much as it is about real women in the real world, parts of it were their stories. That was interesting, and when it came down to it, that was what kept me reading, I think.But it deserves more stars because it has me still thinking, still looking at the world a little bit differently... it's just that I'm still at a little bit of a loss for how to go about finding my purpos... moree, and being sure about it, and how to achieve a point in my life--and my family's life--to begin to work on it.I mean, about halfway through this book, I became more strongly aware of my desire to homeschool my children, but financially, it's still such an improbability that I've begun to wonder if maybe that's not what would be best for them. Fortunately, I have my man around to point out the difficulties that would be involved when all I can see is how great it would be to spend all day with the kids I love most. And if my mission is to reach out to children--not just my own--then I would have greater opportunities of that in a public school setting, rather than to my own children, in my own home.And so. At this point I'm wondering if there's some way I can meet a member of the IOOF, and be sponsored for membership, or if there's something specific I can do to get more people to come to our church (because we're soon to lose about half of our membership when one of the families moves away) and I just imagine that finding God's purpose for me will happen, even if all it comes down to is me getting the chance to get back into writing and push my thoughts into the world that way.
review 2: Overall I was not impressed with this book. After reading it I could not really tell you what a missional mom is. The book was more examples and stories than ideas and implementation. That being said the book still did have an impact on me. I found myself thinking more purposefully about the way I view people who are different from me. But does that make me missional? If so, I think the word missional has little to no meaning. less

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