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    For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

    By Jen Hatmaker

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    New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker believes that life can be fun, fulfilling, exciting, and beautiful. There's just one thing getting in the way: people.

    So many of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks are connected to others, starting with ourselves and the people we came from. As we grow, our community does too. Before we know it, our lives are full of people: people we became friends with, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don't like, don't understand, fear, and endlessly compare ourselves to. It's easy to lose our love for ourselves and for others, but what if we let people off the hook instead? What if we let go of the need to criticize ourselves and our neighbors?

    Jen shares the lessons she’s learned about how important it is to love people by teaching you how to:

    • Break free of guilt and shame by dismantling the unattainable Pinterest life
    • Learn to engage our culture's controversial issues with grace
    • Release the burden of always being right and be liberated to love
    • 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 until you cry

    In this raucous ride to freedom for modern women, Jen bares the refreshing wisdom, wry humor, no-nonsense faith, liberating insight, and fearless honesty that have made her beloved by women worldwide.

    Join Jen as she reminds you how amazing you are, how shockingly gracious God is, and how free we are to love others well and live the beautiful, wholehearted lives we were created to live.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateAug 18, 2015
    ISBN9780718031831
    Author

    Jen Hatmaker

    Jen Hatmaker is the author of the New York Times bestsellers For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire. Jen hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and she leads a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving community that grants millions of dollars around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives happily just outside Austin, Texas in a 1908 farmhouse with questionable plumbing.

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    • 4/5
      Absolutely hilarious and true. This woman really gets being a woman and mom and puts it out there in a way that will make you laugh out loud. There's quite a bit about the church too, which as a non-religious person I still, for the most part, found interesting.
    • 5/5
      For The Love~FIGHTING for GRACE in a World of Impossible Standards by Jen Hatmaker is a wonderfully burden breaking book filled with sound truths about grace. For The Love by Jen Hatmaker takes a relaxed and transparent look at the elements of grace and the pressure we put on ourselves to live it out in a "perfect" way every day. This book gently reminds the reader that the focus of grace filled living should center around the love we share and reveal to one another through kindness practiced in our everyday living; It is more about resembling Christ through a relationship with Him rather than trying harder to be better within our own strength. Reading the book, For The Love by Jen Hatmaker is similar to the feeling one gets from a cool breeze on a hot summer day! With each turn of the page, I could feel the air becoming lighter...crisper...easier to breathe. Jen's candor and honest transparency throughout her writing is so refreshing to me that I can hardly put her work down. Instead of rushing through and trying to read faster, I found myself reading slower, so as to savor every word. Well done!Jen Hatmaker will bring a smile to your face!After digesting this most recent work from Jen Hatmaker, the reader will undoubtedly search their own heart for issues that have been hidden and not dealt with due to the fear of being judged by a harsh world. Jen brings to light that releasing these concerns to the Lord will break chains and set you free to demonstrate the goodness of God wherever you are planted. The humor in this book is plentiful. Is she a comedian in addition to her writing career? I literally could not stop laughing during many parts of this book. Her unstoppable ability to bring liberation to a soul bound in guilt, fear, and insecurity is a priceless gift.I think what I love most about this author's work is the way her "spicy" personality comes across in her masterpieces. She describes "spicy people" as those who "love obnoxious humor, sarcasm, and the tendency to be very, very loud." She goes on to explain that spicy folks have "enormous feelings, which makes us a passionate, emotional bunch. Our permanent default setting is exclamation marks. We don't really 'do gentle.' We don't actually know what that means." For The Love brings out this free spirited sense of abandon and translates to the reader in a comedic way. However, don't mistake Jen's fun spirited delivery with a watered down message, because her case for Christ and her consistent message that we need to reach out to a hurting world in truth and love are vehemently clear. Her insistence that God should not be our "American God Narrative", 'filtered through a middle class, white, advantage denominational lens' sets the stage for one of the most profound statements in the entire book, which is: "Theology is either true everywhere or it isn't true anywhere." Powerful, thought provoking, and true! For the Love by Jen Hatmaker is a treat to read! It will be released on August 18, 2015. This book definitely has the potential to set a warm heart on fire...a captive soul free... a confused mind straight...and perhaps even change a grumpy countenance to a bright and happy one. Thank you to Thomas Nelson a registered trademark of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc for this complimentary review copy of For The Love by Jen Hatmaker provided through NetGalley. I received this book in exchange for an honest review. The opinions within this review are my own.
    • 5/5
      Sometimes books make me laugh. Sometimes books make me cry. Sometimes books change the way I look at the world. For the Love is that rare kind of book that did all three. It is one of the rare books that I know I will read and re-read, over and over again. It is full of love, and grace, and excellent fashion advice. It's a book about God for people who are tired of books about God. It is warm, and wise, and funny, and goofy, and true. It is so very true. If you are a Christian who longs for a better way, read this book and see how it can be. If you used to be a Christian, but can't stand the church anymore, read this book and believe that some of us want to be better. This is good stuff, friends. Highest of recommendations.
    • 5/5
      This book had me with the subtitle. I remember the first birthday party that my son went to - the party favors were handmade pillowcases, one for each guest. The next year, when we had moved to a new town, I volunteers to bring a cake to the PTO cake walk, only to find that my chocolate cake from a mix looked a little sad next to the carefully decorated masterpieces that other moms brought. As my kids got older, I got better at ignoring the impossible standards. (My boys soon learned to volunteer to bring plates and napkins.) But I worry that we've all gotten too caught up in trying to meet impossible standards. Jen Hatmaker combines her big sense of humor with her deeply-held Christian values in these issues about giving each other a break and keeping in mind what matters. The essays are grouped into four sections - about self, family, other people, and the church. Hatmaker's writing feels like talking to a close friend, or your own personal cheerleaders. As a pastor's wife and a respected Christian author, she discusses her faith in a humble, inclusive way, never in a "preach-y" way. She simplifies complex issues, as when she shares her three goals for her kids (Be kind. Be you. Love Jesus.). And she admits the complexity of many issues, noting, "Do you know how much theology I have to leave in the "I just won't understand this until I meet Him face-to-face" drawer?" Some essays are just pure fun (like Jen's sarcastic thank you notes), and some deal of the issues at the heart of a well-lived life. Whether making me smile or making me think, these essays worked for me.
    • 5/5
      I very much want Jen Hatmaker as a new friend. I'd love to be invited to supper with her supper club! This book made me laugh out loud so many times. I feel like I really know her and her thoughts on the world after reading this book. I have to say, it was a bit eclectic. Sometimes it was just funny "thank you" letters to random situations in life, other times it was very serious advice on how to be a missionary who can actually help the very people you are trying to help.

      She has good advice for married people. She has some good recipes. She has expressions I will certainly be adding to my list of phrases. This was the first book of Jen's that I have read, but it surely won't be my last!