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Working Families: Navigating the Demands and Delights of Marriage, Parenting, and Career

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Joy Jordan-Lake gives a great gift in her honest, challenging look at faithfulness in calling and passion in all areas of our lives - not just motherhood. With candor and wisdom, she grapples with how to work out a marriage with two careers, others' opinions, and the chaos that sometimes come with the multi-layered life of a working mom. She advocates working as faithfulness to a calling - not a paycheck. Also quite helpful is her chapter on 'tools for survival' where she doesn't just offer simple how-to's on making the nitty gritty work, but rather reflections on how to make overall life function well (think: making a weekly grocery list vs. establishing a rhythm of prayer).

AND, it's so well written - funny, poignant, challenging - that I've even ordered some of her other books to check out. Her writing is a delightful read!

This book is very real and great for married couples going through tough times. We are actually using it for our Sunday School class and we can all relate to this book.

This book is a good independent read. We are using it for a group Sunday School study. I am not sure that is the best environment for discussion of the book. It does not seem to ask what is in the best interest of children but more value is placed in the desires of the adults in their lives.