For the Love : Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

Your very own self. Worst beam ever ; On turning forty ; On calling and Haitian moms ; Fashion concerns ; Run your race ; Not buying ; Tell the truth ; Thank-you notes (part 1) -- All these people who live in your house. Hope for spicy families ; Surviving school ; Dear kids ; Marriage: have fun and stuff ; Jesus kids ; Thank-you notes (part 2) -- Friends, neighbors, strangers, and enemies. Supper club ; Porches as altars ; Quirky ; Difficult people ; Bonus supper club menu ; Thank-you notes (part 3) -- Church, church people, not-church people, and God. Poverty tourism ; Dear church... ; If social media were around ; Thank-you notes (part 4) ; Dear Christians, please stop being lame ; On women.;Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental, how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves. New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker believes that life can be fun, fulfilling, exciting, and beautiful. There's just one thing getting in the way: people. So many of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks are connected to others, starting with ourselves and the people we came from. As we grow, our community does too. Before we know it, our lives are full of people: people we became friends with, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don't like, don't understand, fear, and endlessly compare ourselves to. It's easy to lose our love for ourselves and for others, but what if we let people off the hook instead? What if we let go of the need to criticize ourselves and our neighbors? Jen shares the lessons she’s learned about how important it is to love people by teaching you how to: Break free of guilt and shame by dismantling the unattainable Pinterest life Learn to engage our culture's controversial issues with grace Release the burden of always being right and be liberated to love Identify the tools you already have, to develop real-life, all-in, know-my-junk-but-love-me-anyway friendships Escape our impossible standards for parenting and marriage by accepting the standard of "mostly good" Laugh until you cry In this raucous ride to freedom for modern women, Jen bares the refreshing wisdom, wry humor, no-nonsense faith, liberating insight, and fearless honesty that have made her beloved by women worldwide. Join Jen as she reminds you how amazing you are, how shockingly gracious God is, and how free we are to love others well and live the beautiful, wholehearted lives we were created to live. "Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She reveals with humor and style how Jesus' embarrassing grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don't like, don't understand, fear, compare ourselves to, and judge. Jen knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental, how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves. She reveals how to: Break free of guilt and shame by dismantling the unattainable Pinterest life. * Learn to engage our culture's controversial issues with a grace-first approach. * Be liberated to love and release the burden of always being right. * Identify the tools you already have to develop real-life, all-in, know-my-junk-but-love-me-anyway friendships. * Escape our impossible standards for parenting and marriage by accepting the standard of 'mostly good.' * Laugh your butt off. * In this raucous ride to freedom for modern women, Jen Hatmaker bares the refreshing wisdom, wry humor, no-nonsense faith, liberating insight, and fearless honesty that have made her beloved by women worldwide."--Amazon The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus' extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't understand, fear, struggle with, compare ourselves to, and judge. People are the best and worst thing about the human life. Jen Hatmaker knows this all too well, and so she reveals how to practice kindness, grace, truthfulness, vision, and love to ourselves and those around us. By doing this, For the Love leads our generation to reimagine Jesus' grace as a way of life, and it does it in a funny yet profound manner that Christian readers will love. Along the way, Hatmaker shows readers how to reclaim their prophetic voices and become Good News again to a hurting, polarized world. Offers advice intended to help women find grace and contentment in life by learning to let go of unrealistic standards and unyielding stances and pursue love, God, friendship, and laughter instead