Okayest Mom — A Memoir of Faith, Family & Adoption | Natalie Gwyn

Only God Could Do This

She was already a mother of two healthy young children, living comfortably in the suburbs, and feeling like she had her life reasonably together. Then God asked her to do something that made absolutely no sense — and she said yes anyway. Natalie Gwyn doubled the size of her family by adopting four children from Ethiopia, and what followed was the kind of story that only God could write: messy, miraculous, hilarious, and deeply, unmistakably His.

Okayest Mom is Natalie’s whole story — told with the sharp wit, honest vulnerability, and hard-won wisdom of a woman who learned that you don’t have to be a perfect mother to be exactly the mother God called you to be. With humor that makes you laugh out loud and insight that makes you think, she captures what it really looks like to follow God into the unknown, to bond a blended cross-cultural family, and to trust that His grace is sufficient even on the days when you are very clearly the okayest mom in the room.

Featured on HuffPost. Quoted by Kathie Lee Gifford. Written for every mother who has ever felt like she is not quite enough — and needed to be reminded that God specializes in exactly that.

Details

• Genre: Christian Living / Memoir / Family
• Author: Natalie Gwyn
• Publisher: FaithWords / Hachette Book Group
• ISBN: 9781478992486

A perfect gift for any mother — adoptive, biological, blended, or otherwise — who needs a good laugh and a reminder that God’s grace covers every gap.

"But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’" — 2 Corinthians 12:9