The Mom I Have Now

October 6, 2011 | Family: Nurturing Family, Just me

This month’s issue of Proverbs 31 Magazine features me and my family. I loved it! Especially the pictures on the inside of my beautiful grandbabies. The article featured my book, The Mom I Want to Be: Rising Above Your Past to Give Your Kids a Great Future. It shares what God can do in spite of brokenness, and how to give our children something greater.

But every time this story is shared, I want to share the “rest of the story”. You see, the rest of the story is that my mom is one of my best friends today.

I love her smile. I love the fact that she’s one of my biggest cheerleaders. I love that I can see how God healed her, and how she is a mentor to a young girl at Street School in Tulsa, or how she lights up when she knows that I’m coming to hang out, or how she’s honest about her feelings, not holding back on what makes her happy or sad.

I wrote the Mom I Want to Be, not to show what dysfunction looks like, but what healing can be. What if offers you and me, and the next generation. It’s practical. It’s healing.

But the mom I have now is also a glimpse of what God can do, as is our relationship.

So today I just want to take a moment and let a special person, a woman of courage and who lights up my world, know how much she is loved by her daughter.

Love you, mom.

Suzie

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1. Robin says:
   

   Can you tell me if this book would be appropriate for not necessarily overcoming my childhood as mine was pretty good, but learning how to deal with a current marriage issue that is affecting my kids. Things are so bad that my kids don’t want to call their dad ,Dad. They will tell him we don’t like you enough to call you Dad. They are hurting, my husband in oblivious to it, I am hurting for them but for whatever reason can not find the courage to leave. (He is not physically abusive, it has come close but it is emotional and mental abuse.) Would this book apply still since it isn’t issues from my own childhood? My kids are all boys ages 18 (senior in High school), 15 sophmore, and 3.
   I am scared I am going to lose my boys becuase of my husbands actions and words. Please advise.
   God Bless

   October 10th, 2011 at 9:22 am

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