For the Love is now a New York Times bestseller! Don’t miss Jen’s latest title, also a New York Times bestseller, Of Mess & Moxie.
Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She reveals with humor and style how Jesus’ embarrassing grace is the key to dealing with life’s biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don’t like, don’t understand, fear, compare ourselves to, and judge. Jen knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental, how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves. She reveals how to:
- Break free of guilt and shame by dismantling the unattainable Pinterest life.
- Learn to engage our culture’s controversial issues with a grace-first approach.
- Be liberated to love and release the burden of always being right.
- Identify the tools you already have to develop real-life, all-in, know-my-junk-but-love-me-anyway friendships.
- Escape our impossible standards for parenting and marriage by accepting the standard of “mostly good.”
- Laugh your butt off.
In this raucous ride to freedom for modern women, Jen Hatmaker bares the refreshing wisdom, wry humor, no-nonsense faith, liberating insight, and fearless honesty that have made her beloved by women worldwide.
For the Love is also available in Spanish, Por el amor de …
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This book is worth more than 3 stars, but…
Jen is hilarious, peppering jokes between tear jerker odes to her loved ones, community, and Jesus. The chapter about “Callings” by itself makes it worth it to get the book. She also fills an important hole in common Christian writing – she talks about grace, but also addresses the need for people to leave abusive and toxic relationships. She also frankly addresses modern problems in the church, such as homophobia, science-aversion, and unnecessary dogmatism. It’s a good book! I have to whine about something though. I was personally quite miffed by the bits on cooking. She has a little speel about how “we” do have time to cook healthy meals, mixed in with a mockery of advertisements for fast food and packaged food. Then she follows it up with a recipe that requires two hours in the oven. I remembered that Hatmaker does not work a nine to five job like most of us and, suddenly, that comment made sense. If I tried that, husband and I would be eating dinner at 8:45 P.M. Correction, I would be crying by 7:15 P.M. and husband would have bought us burgers by 7:20 P.M. I was very much enjoying the book but was very disheartened by the way she talked about food as some kind of relationship glue. I grew up with and live with people who just don’t care that much about food – investing extra time and money into food is a waste.