Review and Giveaway: Small Talk

About the book:
Every day, one of Amy Julie Becker’s children says something that prompts her to think about life in a new way. “Mom, does Santa love me?” William asks, after his mother explains the meaning of Christmas…In a chat with her dad about the children who died in the Sandy Hook shootings, Penny asks, “Did they go to heaven?” …”You was a jerk, Mommy?” asks Marilee one morning in the car.
These conversations deepen Amy Julia’s relationships with her children, but they also refine her understanding of what she believes and what God is doing in her own life.
In Small Talk, Amy Julia draws from the wisdom and curiosity of those young voices to reflect on beauty and kindness, tragedy and disability, prayer and miracles. As she moves through the basic questions her kids posed when they were very young to the more intellectual questions of later childhood, she invites us to learn from our own day-to-day conversations with the children in our lives.
This eloquent parenting memoir is about the big questions little hearts ask, the thoughts their words provoke, and the laughter and soul-searching their honesty brings—to adult and child alike.

About the author:

Amy Julia Becker writes about faith, family, and disability for Parents.com, the New York Times Motherlode blog, TheAtlantic.com, The Huffington Post parents page, Christianity Today, The Christian century, and numerous other publications. Her first book, A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny, was named one of the Top Ten Religion Books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly. Amy Julia lives in western Connecticut with her husband and three children.

Official Website: http://www.zondervan.com/small-talk

What a pleasure to read this book! Every chapter, Amy shares the revelations the Father has given her in her daily life as a mom. Revelations that we too can receive if we slow down and let the Father speak through our children. This book was an easy read, not heavy and theological, but anecdotal and practical. Through reading it, I was reminded over and over how we need to come to the Father as children, trusting and naive. Not trying to complicate everything (as we adults often do), but taking His Word for what it says and actually believing it!!! This book was so encouraging! Feeling overwhelmed about motherhood? Read a chapter of this book and you will be grateful once again for the Blessings the Father has bestowed upon you! This book would make a great baby shower gift as well as a gift to a well seasoned mama! We can all use encouragement!

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