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Did you know, Devotional Readers, that DaySpring encompasses more than producing Christian greeting cards and products? It\u2019s true. But, then, maybe you already got there ahead of me on that one. Had I not selected one of DaySpring community\u2019s latest books,\u00a0 A Mother\u2019s Love, Celebrating Every Kind of Mom<\/strong><\/em>, to read and to write this review, I may still be unaware of their \u201cbigger picture\u201d.<\/p>\n So, is this a book review on, one, the love of mothers?; two, a book reviewer\u2019s confession to her latest-in-life discovery?; or three, a Hail-to-DaySpring post? Hopefully, you guessed numbers one and three, because, those are the correct answers.<\/p>\n A MOTHER\u2019S LOVE, Celebrating Every Kind of Mom,<\/strong><\/em> a 148- page journal, is compiled of 40 softly drawn illustrations and personal contributions from more than two dozen women writers, whose stories\u2013like mosaic art within mosaic art\u2013form one complete work: voices telling stories about Mom-Hood. It connects to its readers by providing \u201cReflections\u201d, lined pages with adequate space to pen their own thoughts.<\/p>\n (In)courage Community aims to help the hearts of women through literature like, A<\/em><\/strong> MOTHER\u2019S LOVE.<\/strong><\/em> Inside its pages, lies one story after another one\u2013some, unique and inspiring; while others, ordinary, necessary, and maybe a little mundane. These revealed experiences come from those who are \u201cMoms\u201d, or have \u201cMommied\u201d in their own individual ways: sometimes alone, sometimes afraid, and sometimes without hope.\u00a0 These moms do not seek fame and rewards; nor, does the book contain praises of their great parenting skills, nor of any special \u201cMommy-Hood Heroics\u201d.\u00a0 No one \u201cstruts her stuff\u201d, and no one speaks of desiring to win an Oscar for her great mommy performances. A MOTHER\u2019S LOVE<\/strong>, Celebrating Every Kind of Mom<\/strong><\/em> resounds as one biblical LOVE account that leads to an expected denouemen<\/em>t. <\/em><\/strong>As a devotional-praise book, A MOTHER\u2019S LOVE<\/strong><\/em> offers a \u201ctwo-edged-sword\u201d theme: on one side it says, \u201cLet\u2019s celebrate a mother\u2019s love; while, on the other side is, \u201cLet\u2019s also celebrate the One who created Moms\u2013 God Himself. And, let\u2019s also celebrate His Son, Jesus, Savior and Lord, and the indwelling Holy Spirit\u2013whose Fruit names first, Love, called Agape. <\/span>Through A MOTHER\u2019S LOVE,<\/strong> Celebrating Every Kind of Mom, <\/strong><\/em>(in)courage community offers an opportunity for \u00a0women to begin the Agape Love journey, in hopes that these women, too, may and will one day join them and CELEBRATE!<\/span><\/p>\n Mrs. Patricia Ann Timbrook, Children\u2019s Book Reviewer\/Christian Boo k Reviewer, May 29,\u00a0 2020.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n