Love Like a Mother gently invites you to rediscover the God of the Bible as the one who gestates, births, nourishes, comforts, and protects—just like a mother. The book weaves together overlooked maternal imagery from Scripture with real-life stories from the trenches and explores how mothers uniquely bear the image of God in the sacred ordinary of everyday mothering, which can serve as a spiritual lifeline when you’re drowning in diapers and dishes.

We know that motherhood will change us. We anticipate terrible sleep and a steady stream of viruses brought home from preschool. We quickly learn how to eat with one hand once the baby arrives, and we begin to shower at the speed of light before the toddler finds the permanent marker stash again. But we don’t always expect that our faith will change in this intense season of life.

Amid the sleepless nights, the gauntlet of pregnancy and birth, and the relentless caregiving that young kids require, we barely have time to get dressed most days, much less read the Bible. The spiritual practices that have always sustained us can feel impossible to achieve: early morning quiet times get obliterated by the baby’s latest sleep regression; our prayer life can feel like an effort to simply stay awake.

Motherhood completely upends. It rearranges our bodies, our brains, and our schedules, but it can also offers us an entirely new perspective from which to understand the world and know God. In scrubbing bottles and driving to soccer practice, in soothing tears and cutting grapes, in the transformative experiences of labor and birth, we bear God’s image, as mothers. In every moment of love for our kids, we are getting to know God’s love for us as found in the broad story of God’s care for humanity and the maternal language for God laced throughout Scripture. In this, we can find new ways to connect with God and grow our faith in the most intense seasons of motherhood.