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    Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
    Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
    Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
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    Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life

    Written by Jen Hatmaker

    Narrated by Jen Hatmaker

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    About this audiobook

    Life is messy for each of us. But Jen Hatmaker reminds us that it's okay to admit that we're all in the same boat. Join New York Times bestselling author and honorary big sister Jen as she shares hilarious tales, shameless honesty, and unconditional hope for the woman who's forgotten her moxie.

    We will endure discouragement, heartbreak, failure, and suffering. All of us. And more than once. But we are the very same folks who can experience triumph, perseverance, joy, and rebirth. More than once. And in more than one category. And in more than one season. And that? That's moxie.

    Moxie reaches for laughter, for courage, for the deep and important truth that women are capable of weathering the storm. We are not victims, we are not weak, we are not a sad, defeated group of sob sisters. Yes, life is hard, but we are incredibly resilient.

    Of Mess and Moxie shines a light on Jen's own triumphs and tragedies into a sigh of relief for all normal, fierce women everywhere. Whether it's the time she drove to the wrong city for a fourth-grade field trip or the way she learned to truly forgive, she offers a reminder to those of us who sometimes hide in the car eating crackers that we do actually have the moxie to get back up and face our messes head-on. After all, this race is not a contest--there's enough abundance to go around.

    This book will give you the encouragement you need to remember that:

    • Your mess is normal
    • You are not in competition with your peers--your seat at the table is secure
    • You have incredible gifts to offer

    Come alongside Jen as she teaches us that we can all choose to live undaunted and in the moment, no matter what the moments hold, and we really can lead vibrant, courageous, grace-filled lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateAug 8, 2017
    ISBN9780718098292
    Author

    Jen Hatmaker

    Jen Hatmaker is the author of the New York Times bestsellers For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire. Jen hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and she leads a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving community that grants millions of dollars around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives happily just outside Austin, Texas in a 1908 farmhouse with questionable plumbing.

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    • 3/5
      Jen is funny and definitely passionate, but overall this book could’ve been half as long. It’s mostly pointless chatter Delivered. Like. This. There are really good parts and I appreciate that she read the book (despite her stuffy/runny nose and sniffles) but honestly this was seven wasted hours.
    • 5/5
      Jen Hatmaker per usual is honest, humble and hilarious. Jen has an uncanny ability to make you feel quiet special; I felt as though this audio book was being read only to you. I felt as though Jen was just telling me personal stories, it didn’t read like a book; such as she would state when she was going rogue so to speak, lol. She just wanted to add additional details, which I find quiet beautiful and amazing! A feel good book! Thanks Jen!
    • 5/5
      This was a great book! Loved the audio version and I plan on buying the book for my bookshelf and reference when motherhood gets the best of me.
    • 5/5
      Her authenticity and ability to make you laugh.. a wonderful read or listen
    • 2/5
      The book is all about positive vibes among the sisterhood. But I feel good about my life and this book made me feel weird, like there isn’t enough mess in my life. I just couldn’t relate to the stories the author told.
      I also didn’t like the author’s reading. I felt like she was shouting at me the whole time. Hardly any modulation. Also there was a strange reverberation in the sound, a really bad audio quality. Disappointing!
    • 5/5
      Jen Hatmaker is Hilarious and full of wisdom! I don’t even have kids and I still found this to be a great book.
    • 4/5
      I laughed, I cried, I commiserated, and it was just a delight to listen to. I don't know that I would've enjoyed it quite as much if I'd read it--checked out from Overdrive, audiobook. Worth your time.
    • 5/5
      I saw Jen Hatmaker at the Farewell tour of Women of Faith. I had never heard of her before, but she thrilled me to my soul. I recently read some comments she'd made that got a bit of news.... I don't even remember completely what the comments were. I just remember seeing, "Oh, she's got a new book coming out, I'll watch for that." Next thing I know, it's available for me to listen to on Hoopla Digital. Yay!!!
      I. LOVE. This woman! I want to be one of her BFF's out on her porch, drinking wine and laughing and crying and watching our kids run around and play. Jen's snarky-yet-sweet sense of humor sings to me. I found myself laughing out loud so many times, and then I'd be in tears minutes later, commiserating with her about one of life's many lessons. How refreshing it is to hear someone like Jen telling me I'm not doing this Mom/Wife/Christian thing wrong! I will come back to this book again and again!
    • 2/5
      Not as enjoyable as her last book, For the Love, but still a good read with plenty of funny parts and feel good moments. I'm not a religious individual but I don't, in general, mind her "preaching" as it's what I think we should all be able to agree upon - be a good person and do good by others. This book seemed to have more religious talk than the last but still plenty of real life content.
    • 4/5
      I am a librarian and a Christian who absolutely detests 99.9% of "inspirational" literature. In my mind, "IF" in the library system stands for Idiot Fiction. I quite liked this nonfiction book, however, and while I would not have picked it up if I had noticed the publisher, it's the most real and honest book about managing a large family I have come across. Many parts are laugh-out-loud funny. There was zero irritating dogmatism. She drinks. She says "jackassery." She is calling b.s. on everybody in the holier-than-thou subculture trying to out-Jesus everybody else while hating on a few select people whose sexuality they find distasteful. As a believer who has had fantasies about slim, active gay Christians issuing a Nashville Statement about gluttony and sloth and condemning millions of fundyvangelicals bellying up to the buffet at Shoney's and Golden Corral, then going home to their remote control ministries, I came away with the unfamiliar feeling that I could actually be friends with this author. This brings the total number of living religious writers I like to three: Nadia Bolz-Weber, Anne Lamott, and Jen Hatmaker. All women, unsurprisingly.
    • 5/5
      Of Mess and Moxie is Jen Hatmaker's love letter to the girls - the young ones, the old ones, the ones in the middle - who are walking this journey of life in all of its joy and sadness. The girls who are nailing it and the girls who feel like they just don't measure up. The girls who have it all together and the girls who feel like they only ever fall short. The girls who feel "just medium", who are afraid they are messing it all up and can't see how bright they actually shine. So, really, for all of us.This book is funny, poignant, smart, kind, honest, affirming, and full of joy. It's like a 4-hour talk with your best friend. It is the embrace of sisterhood that all women need. Jen Hatmaker says she is forever our fangirl - well, I'm forever hers. Highly recommended.(I received an advance copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest opinion.)