Thank you to Lynn Cowell for this beautiful guest post today.
We are beginning Week #4 in our study of The Mom I Want to Be, and all week we’ll discover how to take healthy risks as we grow as moms and as women.
Lynn Cowell shares her risk as she believes that she can give to her daughter what she didn’t get.
Giving My Girl What I Didn’t Get
by Lynn Cowell
She didn’t have it. But if she did, I know she would have given it to me if she could.
Confidence.
At just under 5 feet tall, I am pretty sure I had the most sacrificial mom. Being number 7 of 8 kids, I watched her constantly serve. Her husband, her kids, her church and community. Meals, cleaning, teaching, loving.
She gave every bit of what she had. But just like you and I, she couldn’t give what she didn’t have – confidence in the love of Jesus.
Being raised in a home of many rules and little love, my sweet mom didn’t hear that Jesus was crazy about her. How He absolutely wouldn’t take His mind off of her. That all day long, He was lovingly watching over her.
Yet, when this middle-aged mama began to get it, she began passing His word down to me. Through Jim Nabor’s hymns wafting through the turn table. Her morning ritual of Jesus and coffee in her robe. With each meal she unselfishly prepared, I learned about Jesus’ love.
Jesus took these seeds and planted them deep in my heart. He sent others to water, pull out the weeds and my love for Him also began to grow.
Now I am the mom and I have the kids.
And it is my privilege to pour into my children as I am learning, just like my mom poured into me.
I am investing, truths I am still learning, but I am sharing. We’re learning together. I want my daughters to know she’s already been noticed. She’s already captured Someone’s heart. She’s already being pursued.
That is why I started doing small groups with my girls and their friends. So we could learn about Jesus…together.
Thirteen years of small groups…we’re still learning. Yes, I may be the “leader” and the one writing the book, but just like my girls, I am still a young girl at heart. Every day I have to pour His love for me deep in the unending gap in my heart and fill it once again.
And I have to reposition myself to not chase after the woman culture says I should be, but rest in becoming the woman He says He can mold in me.
As I learn, every day learning, I share with my girls. Reading the Bible at breakfast. Prayers by the bedside. Texting short verses and conversations about the hard stuff. Every day, we’re learning, together
Lynn Cowell
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I’m so excited to have Lynn as my guest today. She’s the real deal. I love her like crazy. ENTER TO WIN ONE OF TWO COPIES of Lynn’s brand new book! Leave a comment and two of you will be chosen at random.
What is Magnetic about?
Packed with honesty, encouragement and perspective-changing truth Magnetic, by Lynn Cowell, will empower girls and young woman to reach their fullest potential by focusing on becoming who God made them to be! A girl who reflects God’s love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. A girl who will attract the right type of guy one day: one who loves God with all his heart and who will cherish her!
Lynn Cowell is a Proverbs 31 speaker and the author of several books including “Magnetic: Becoming the Girl He Wants”. Her passion is to empower wise women to raise wiser daughters. Her husband and their three children live in North Carolina where they love to hike, raft and enjoy anything that includes chocolate and peanut butter!
I’m afraid my mom never did give me this confidence so I know how important it is for mothers to do. Lynn, it’s wonderful that you write these kinds of books. Blessings!
Thank you so much for your encouragement, Dede!
PTL for an opportunity to replace the negative with the Truth!
I would love to win a copy of your book for my daughter. She takes really bad seizures and really doesn’t have close friends to pal around with. She feels likes no one cares. With this book it may make her feel better about herself and realize that someone does care for her. Thank you.
Oh Jesus does so care for your girl, Anita!
I would love to have this book for my daughter
Also who is at home and needs to connect with
others. She has few friends and they never seem
To find the time to call or come see her. Anita as a
Mom of a Special daughter my heart goes out to you!
I know that I care and maybe My daughter and yours
Could connect by becoming friends. Could she write your
Daughter a note so they can be friends. I don’t know where you
live. Maybe we could meet and they could become friends.
Thanks! For sharing from your heart. Ill put her in our prayers.
Janet
So beautiful to see you moms reaching out to each other!
I would love this for my daughters. I have never been real confident but as a mom I keep getting better.
Halona – growing in our knowledge and understanding of Jesus’ love for us builds our confidence – and this is something we can keep doing and growing over our entire life time. Keep going friend!
Hi Suzanne!
What a great book to giveaway today. AND not just one, but TWO copies. That is so exciting! Helping young women experience Jesus is one of my passions as well. I’m so glad there are other women and great resources out there to help us!
Would love to win this book! Sounds so helpful in this stage of my life!
Lynn, I just ordered Magnetic and love it! I thought I would try to get a youth leader from church to head this up, but you gave me the courage to try doing this myself with my daughter and a few friends.
Would love to win a copy of this book for a dear sweet young lady at church. She’s the daughter of a close friend. I’m the mom of boys, but have been blessed with the friendship of women with daughters so it’s like having daughters of my own.
Your book sounds absolutely fabulous! I don’t have girls, but know the perfect girl for this book! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
My mom is a confident woman, but that quality didn’t get passed on to me. As I continue to grow in my “Holy” confidence I pray I can do something new and pass that on to my girls. My oldest daughter will turn 10 in Dec. and I’m looking forward to sharing “Magnetic” with her and anticipate a powerful time as we work through it together. Thanks for sharing!
This book would be so beneficial for where I’m at in life. I really want to better understand how God truly sees me, and how he loves me and pursues me. I want to learn how to become the woman a godly man would want to marry. Thank you so much for doing this great giveaway!