Reset your spiritual and emotional health
Kristin
Funston helps moms discover
how to live a whole and holy life
For working
moms, there are performance pressures
at work, home, and mind-sets that affect a mom’s ability to feel complete and
live more closely aligned with God. In More
for Mom: Living Your Whole and Holy Life (Abingdon Press), Kristin Funston encourages
women to stop believing the lie that more is needed from them and start living
with the truth that more is available for them. She sets forth the beginning
steps for moms to reset their spiritual and emotional health, habits and
relationship with God.
With real-life talk, humor and biblical truths, Kristin Funston helps
hard working moms to look at each day and each facet of their life to discover
what happens when they believe God has more for them than what they think the
world needs from them. And what He has available is a whole and holy life, just
waiting to be claimed–a salvation and day-to-day reality complete just as it
is. The pieces of each mom’s life–the work life, mom life, social life,
etc.–are mended together through Christ to complete her one whole life, set
apart because of Him.
“For a long time, I lived my life from a place of depletion. I was
physically and emotionally tired all the time, always feeling like someone was
needing something from me, and ultimately just in a state of constant unrest,
if you will,” Funston confesses. “When looking back, I can see that I lived my
life for so long from a transactional standpoint—one that is very culturally
based in our consumeristic world—a life of giving and receiving—back and forth
between myself, others, even God. Life was always a give and take. However,
this didn’t line up with John 10:10 in my mind, as it wasn’t giving and
receiving from a place of abundance, but of depletion instead. I looked around
and saw so many other women, moms especially, living this same way.”
More for Mom includes the beginning steps for moms to walk in wholeness and holiness
by asking God for more. Funston will help women:
- Recognize what it looks like in the daily grind to be whole and holy.
- Strategize and execute a game plan in the mental games women play.
- Understand the secret truth behind working mom relationships and living up to expectations.
- Come alive by taking the steps to make their dreams reality.
- Learn why and how to execute spiritual disciplines such as fasting, prayer, and prioritizing time for God.
- Start living their already whole & holy life in Christ.
“A whole and holy mom is, number one, a believer in Christ and what He
did for us on the cross. This idea of ‘wholeness’ stems all the way back to the
garden with Adam, Eve and the way humans were created. Adam and Eve were
physically, emotionally, spiritually healthy, complete and whole in the garden
with each other and with God. Their lives were complete. This is how it was
supposed to be, the way nature intended for us to be,” Funston explains. “When we claim Jesus Christ as our Lord
and Savior, our relationship with our Creator is restored back to a place of
wholeness, completing us emotionally and spiritually. Our wholeness is based on
God’s ability to mend our brokenness and overlook our sin, because of what
Jesus did on the cross. Because we are whole and complete in Christ, back in
proper relationship with Him, we are, therefore, holy.”
Funston shares that the details of the “more”
each mom is missing out on may differ from one woman to the next, but it in all
cases, it stems back to Jesus because everything does. More life, more love,
more joy, more peace, more of all good things come from Him. He is and has the
more they are missing out on. Ephesians tells us that God is able to do more
than we can even begin to think or ask. However, on this side of heaven, where
moms are asked to give and give and give, it’s hard to comprehend the abundance
He has available for us. This giving that’s required of us in our roles as
moms, wives, sisters and workers wears us down, distracting us from fully
thriving and living in that place of abundance.
Funston hopes
all readers are able to give from a place where they can do more than just give,
but give in a celebratory way because they’ve already received more than would
ever be enough. This perspective will shape what their daily grind looks and
feels like because of recognizing what it means to be whole and holy in the
day-to-day.
About the author
With
a passion for writing, Kristin Funston
encourages women in a way that is relatable and practical, with a healthy dose
of humor. In
addition to be a writer, Funston is a member and employee of Hope Presbyterian Church
and works as the Marriage and Family Coordinator and a leader in the women’s ministry.
Convinced
“balance” is a myth, Funston is also passionate about helping and encouraging
women to embrace their current season and experience God in the everyday. She
shares her humor and writing on motherhood on her blog and has been featured on
multiple other blogs including The Better Mom, City Moms Blog, TODAY Parenting,
and Scary Mommy.
Funston
has a master’s degree in Communication Studies from New Mexico State
University. A mom to three girls and not-so-domestic wife
to an entrepreneurial athlete, Funston and her family live outside of Memphis,
TN.
More for Mom is her first book.
Learn more at MoreforMomBook.com. She is also active on Facebook
(KristinDFunston) and Instagram (@kfunston).
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