Stop and spend a while in North Texas in 1886. Join sixteen year old Hayley Anderson and her family in the city of Dallas. The city began as an upstart town for farm families, merchants, and former slaves, on the edge of the great frontier. It became a city of promise. On an important day in her life, Hayley is given Mother's precious golden necklace. As she overcomes obstacles and pursues her dreams, her fingers clutch the necklace and her actions seek to follow the genuine gift of Mother's heart.

Born out of a mother's desire to instill a deep and abiding love for God in her daughter's hearts, this meditation and devotional book speaks to the heart of every young woman embarking on life on her own. Covering topics from salvation by faith to waiting for the right marriage partner, A Mother's Heart will speak to yours no matter whose daughter you are.

Three friends with wildly different lives-but the same heart-come together to celebrate hopes, dreams, and the wishes that fuel them. A trio of mothers: TV journalist/author Leeza Gibbons, author Tricia LaVoice, and designer/restaurateur Barbara Lazaroff, have created a timeless collection of original reflections and pragmatic suggestions for a more fulfilling and purposeful life. A tribute to women of all ages, this book honors the significant connections that women share with their mothers, daughters, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, and friends--and the bonds of sisterhood that permates their lives with support, devotion and wisdom.

"A Mother's Heart: From Pregnancy to the Early Years of Life" is a comprehensive and heartfelt guide that accompanies women on the wonderful journey of motherhood. This book offers a detailed and in-depth look at each stage of pregnancy, childbirth, and the baby's early years, providing practical advice, emotional support, and scientifically grounded information. Through its well-structured chapters, the author explores the joys, challenges, and transformations that each mother experiences during this crucial period. It begins with the early weeks of pregnancy, offering tips on how to prepare physically and emotionally, and progresses through the various stages of childbirth and the baby's first moments of life, up to the early years of growth. The book includes testimonials from mothers who share their personal experiences, offering an authentic and sincere insight into the emotions and difficulties that may arise. Essential topics such as nutrition, sleep, stress management, and the importance of the emotional bond between mother and child are addressed. "A Mother's Heart" is not just a practical manual but also a source of inspiration and encouragement. With accessible language and a compelling narrative, the book celebrates the strength, resilience, and unconditional love of mothers, providing them with the necessary tools to face their most important role with serenity and confidence. Perfect for expectant mothers, new mothers, and anyone looking to better understand the experience of motherhood, "A Mother's Heart: From Pregnancy to the Early Years of Life" is essential reading for every woman about to embark on this extraordinary journey.

A book of prayers and teachings from a spiritual mother's heart to her spiritual children

For thousands of years and in a myriad of cultures, women have forged identity, unconditional love, and vast purpose in the calling of motherhood. From Eve to Sarah, from Ruth to Mary, the Scriptures are filled with the accounts of the heart of a mother who was given a divine opportunity to raise the next generation for the purposes and call of the Father. Inside the soul of every mother lies a heart that becomes a repository of sweet memories, hard lessons, glorious victories, ordinary days, glaring failures, and God’s grace over the years of mothering. The heart of a mother becomes home to jokes around the dinner table, holiday traditions, the tears of childhood, and the love that only a mother knows. And this tender heart that has given birth to the future of mankind or has lovingly adopted the seeds of the next generation also develops rooms of unsurpassed greatness and quiet strength. These are the Rooms of a Mother’s Heart. With her characteristic charm, joy, and biblical teaching that she shares like a good friend over a cup of coffee, Carol McLeod examines what it means to be a mother and offers tender encouragement to all women who accept that calling.

Love Beats Fiercely in a Mother’s Heart Three heart-warming romances about a woman’s love—romantic love as well as her love for her family. Keeping Katie Maura Anderson was out of options. Her adopted daughter, three-year-old Katie, is her entire world, and no heartless legal system was going to take her baby away. She did what any mother would do. She grabs Katie and runs. Sheriff Alan Parks believes in the law, following it and enforcing it to the letter. Then Maura Anderson shows up in his small, quiet town, and he knows she’s running from something. At first, he assumes she’s running from someone – an ex-husband or boyfriend – but when she won’t confide in him he starts wondering. Who is this woman who’s captured his heart, and what or who is she afraid of? When he finds the answers, however, a part of him wishes he’d never asked the question. Because how can he help her when he represents what she’s fleeing . . . the law. Once A Wife At seventeen, Sarah Colby had been scared and desperate. Her marriage to Reece Colby was faltering. They were nearly destitute and their infant son, Drew, needed on-going medical care they couldn’t afford. Sarah felt her world crumpling around her. Then her mother-in-law, Elizabeth, offered Sarah a solution. Elizabeth would make certain Drew got the medical attention he needed if Sarah would walk away from her husband and son. Believing she had no other option, Sarah accepted Elizabeth’s offer—though leaving them was the hardest thing she’d ever done. Now, twelve years later, Sarah still questions that decision. So when she learns that Drew’s in trouble, she knows it’s time to break her agreement with Elizabeth. Drew needs the mother he’s never known and Sarah needs to help her son. But how can she face Reece after deserting him? And what will happen when he finds out about Lyssa, the daughter he doesn’t know he has? Where the Heart Is She’d come home to put her life back together. With a broken engagement behind her and a baby on the way, Maddie Adams needs a safe place to have her baby and heal her broken heart. Then she runs into Nick Ryan, her once-best friend and first love, and her life once again becomes entwined with his. And though the sparks between them are as strong as ever, she does her best to ignore them. Nick had betrayed her once, and she can’t risk it happening again. Not now when she has another life to consider. Nick Ryan grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Back then, the only person who’d believed in him was Maddie Adams, a girl with everything going for her. Then he’d messed up and lost her. Despite that, he’d achieved his dream of becoming a doctor and returned home to practice medicine. But he’d made other mistakes along the way, mistakes that had cost him his wife and left him with an angry teenage son. With Maddie back in town, he’s hoping for a second chance. Can he undo the damage he’s done to his son? Can he heal the old hurt between him and Maddie? And can they put together a new family, one based on love rather than obligation?

When Terri Ann Leidich's twenty-year-old son was suddenly killed in a vehicle accident, she was thrown into the roller coaster agony of grief. Adapted from the journal she kept through the experience of her horrendous loss, this book is a roadmap for parents who have lost children, as well as for those who are on the sidelines, watching the agony of someone they care about and not knowing what to do or how to help. Terri Ann's ability to put emotions and experiences into words that everyone can understand and relate to can shine as a beacon of hope and understanding during a time of excruciating pain.