She Rises Late and Her Kids Make Her Breakfast

Kerri Pomarolli

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Make Time for Godand Ice Cream! Want a deeper relationship with God, but with the clock constantly ticking down the rounds, you can't seem to find the time? Kerri Pomarolli, a comedian and mom living life in LA, knows all about the never-ending search for more time. For time-crunched women longing for God, Kerri offers Devotions for the Proverbs 32 Woman. You will laugh and, perhaps cry, your way closer to the Savior through these 90 meditations. In her down-to-earth style, Kerri will teach you how to face mean girls, navigate social media, and stress eat ice cream with a forkall while learning to put the Lord at the center of all you do.

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• Publié par: Harvest House Publishers
• Date de parution: 05 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780736977517
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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She Rises Late and Her Kids Make Her Breakfast
Copyright 2019 by Kerri Pomarolli
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-7750-0 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-7751-7 (eBook)
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DEDICATION

To all the readers who think
Nutella should be a food group.
CONTENTS
Dedication
Before You Get Started
Day 1: Where Does the Time Go?
Day 2: What It Takes to Look Natural These Days
Day 3: Stop It!
Day 4: I Hope There Aren t Dishes in Heaven
Day 5: How Does My Garden Grow?
Day 6: Blame It on the Rain
Day 7: My Parents House Is a Den of Sin
Day 8: I Had to Break Up with My Ex-Boyfriends
Day 9: I Love It When They Cry
Day 10: Hope Deferred Makes Me Pray Harder
Day 11: Death, Dying, and the Secret Sauce
Day 12: Everything Old Is New Again
Day 13: The Great BrunchCon Race
Day 14: Monsters in My Bed
Day 15: Here I Go Round the Merry-Go-Round
Day 16: Fear and Baseball
Day 17: The Power of No
Day 18: The Sky Is Falling and So Is My Hair
Day 19: It s Not You, It s Me!
Day 20: Millennial Church
Day 21: It s Not Gossip if Your Head Is Bowed
Day 22: I Didn t Make Cheerleading and I m Still Not Over It!
Day 23: Is Botox a Sin?
Day 24: Big Girls Don t Cry
Day 25: Just Another Manic Monday
Day 26: Is There a Power Outage in Heaven?
Day 27: Fitbit in Church
Day 28: Different, Yet the Same
Day 29: Hangry
Day 30: Can God Speak Through Bob Marley?
Day 31: The Purge
Day 32: Virtual Reality Check
Day 33: Mini-Mean Girls
Day 34: Bouncing Balls and Other Random Acts of Kindness
Day 35: Funeral Foods and Other Bad Choices
Day 36: Farm-to-Table Friends
Day 37: Rocky
Day 38: The Greatest Showman
Day 39: And We Just Keep Rolling Along
Day 40: Would God Follow You?
Day 41: Settling a Little
Day 42: Out of the Mouth of Babes
Day 43: The F Word
Day 44: God Speaks at Target
Day 45: Mama Had a Rolling Stone
Day 46: Pain Hurts!
Day 47: Jesus School
Day 48: It Takes a Mouse
Day 49: Words, Words, Words
Day 50: Popular
Day 51: Working (It) Out
Day 52: Good Idea vs. God Idea
Day 53: Thoughts from a Proverbs 32 Man
Day 54: Give and Take a Little
Day 55: First-Class Miracle
Day 56: Get Over It!
Day 57: Good News, Bad News
Day 58: Riding the Crazy Train
Day 59: Second Half Comeback
Day 60: Grace
Note to Reader
Acknowledgments
About the Author
God Is Crazy About You-Hot Mess and All!
Booking Information
About the Publisher
BEFORE YOU GET STARTED
I ve been a Christian over 35 years, but some days I feel like my spiritual life is about as mature as my eight-year-old s. Do you ever find yourself paging through magazines and websites, and suddenly the thought occurs to you that you haven t spent any time with God today? Or yesterday? Or, you know maybe in a long time? And maybe you desire to spend more time with Him, but the hours and days slip away with work deadlines, phone calls, social engagements, children living in your house expecting you to feed them every single day.
This is why I wrote this devotional. I know you only have so much time in the bathroom, and I know that s literally the only time you get to yourself. Some of you try to take a shower alone, but when you look outside the curtain, a tiny human is standing there. She s like a short Norman Bates in Psycho demanding to join you. She jumps in with her clothes on, and you let her. You might even call that bath night. I get it. I live this life day in and day out. This book is for you.
If you are not a mother, this book is for you too. We women all have the same struggles. It s just our circumstances that change. I love God with all my heart, and there are days when I have the luxury and discipline to spend lots of time in His Word. But other days I need something to pick me up and help me start my day. I hope these stories can be a dose of fun and encouragement along with your morning coffee/doughnut/toaster strudel/leftover pizza. (Nobody s judging.)
We all know a daily dose of God s Word is an integral part of any diet, and there is a very real enemy who will do anything to make sure we skip this important nutrient as often as possible. So this book has 60 daily devotionals that I promise will make you laugh, think, and possibly give you a new way to view some things. Most importantly, it will connect you with God s Word. So give me 60 days, and let s see what happens.
Some of you are wondering who the Proverbs 32 Woman in the subtitle of this book is. Is there a chapter 32 in Proverbs you missed? Well, no, but there is a Proverbs 32 Woman, and that s me. And after reading this book, you may realize it s you too.
I ve read about the Proverbs 31 Woman for years, and I ve always wondered what this woman was really like. Was she even real? I have tried to emulate her, but I don t rise early and I don t plow. I think gathering food from afar is referring to Uber Eats! And since I couldn t measure up to the standard she set, I decided I d embrace my own #hotmess4Jesus life and become a Proverbs 32 Woman instead.
If you are reading this book, you could be one too! Do you think Nutella solves problems? Do you watch the Food Channel and surf Pinterest for recipes that you never-and I mean never -make? Do you listen to old songs on the radio and secretly wonder what your boyfriend from high school is up to and then fight the temptation to look him up on Facebook? (And then do it anyway?) God s not mad at you or thinking less of you. He thinks you re delightful and fun and loves every bit of your imperfect self. He didn t create you to be a robot. He created you to embrace this journey through each day He gives you on earth, and He invites you to learn as much as you can about living the best life He intended for you. This life is full of pitfalls, tragedy, tears, and pain, but it s also full of joy, laughter, and incredible moments. We need only to stop long enough to appreciate them.
In this devotional my plan is to explore some of the things the Proverbs 31 Woman can teach us. But I also want us to learn more about God s unconditional, crazy, pure love for every single part of us-the good, the bad, and the unfiltered. I hope you enjoy my stories and see a little of yourself in each one. I just want this book to help women in every life stage. I want to help you realize you are not alone and you are exactly where you are supposed to be. God never intended you to be on the hamster wheel of anxiety, rushing along this path called Modern-Day Womanhood.
The more we read about Him and His heart, the more we can realize that most of our problems are the result of us believing the wrong things about ourselves. Most of us spend more time getting validation from Facebook and Instagram likes than from our heavenly Father. I m the guiltiest of the bunch. Lately I m obsessed with Keto recipes and intermittent fasting so I can lose 20 pounds in