Ordinary Miracles: Awakening to the Holy Work of Parenting

Where is God in the midst of temper tantrums, accidents, and keeping the laundry monster fed? In this honest devotional memoir about mothering three what-are-they-up-to-now boys, ordained Mennonite minister and blogger Rachel S. Gerber encourages readers to gird up their spandex amid the grit of parenting and take time for some stories of hope.

Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, who failed at first to recognize the Christ walking beside them, Rachel learns to discover the gifts and holy calling hidden in the events of harried family life. Overburdened parents will find encouragement in Rachel’s own story of how, in her darkest hour of disorientation, in the most mundane and ordinary days of motherhood, and in moments of exhilaration, joy, and beauty, God is present.

Ordinary Miracles offers an invitation to consider where God surprises us in the midst of ordinary life, awakening recognitions that as we care for our children, we love and serve the God who created them.

Rachel is an ordained minister and currently Mennonite Church USA denominational minister of youth and young adults. She and her husband Shawn are parents of three boys.