Just a Good Book For Mamas {Hoodwinked}

Hoodwinked.

What does the word, or in this case, Book Title, conjure up in your mind?

A simple definition for hoodwink is to deceive or trick.

A few synonyms that caught my attention are bamboozle, beguile, bluff, fake out, snooker and suck in.

Read them again.

Bamboozle, beguile, bluff, fake out, snooker and suck in.

Land back on the last one.

The first five make me think “tricked”.

  Sucked in though, makes me think of getting caught in a trap or slowly but surely, edged into a place I don’t agree with and do not want to be.

It makes me envision struggling against quicksand.

Another mental image shows me getting lassoed and steadily roped in and tied up in knots.

Which makes me think about Samson. He wasn’t a mama, but he surely was hoodwinked!! And you know what’s even crazier? He LET himself get snookered. Tricked. Hoodwinked. Sucked in.

It always seemed crazy to me when he finally tells Delilah where his strength is. How many times had he told her and she promptly tried whatever tactic it took to weaken and defeat him?

It just doesn’t seem so smart to me, that after ALL THAT, he says, “My head has never been touched by a razor.”

What’d he think she was going to do?

Now, I do realize nagging is no fun. In verse 16 of Judges 16 it tells us that she prodded him day after day with such nagging until he was tired to death.

Yeah, I’d be tired of it, too. {Good lesson here. He should have been keeping different company.}

He was setting himself up as an easy target for the trap of trickery.

 

BUT………..

How different am I, really?

I know Truth. I believe Truth. I read Truth.

I close the leaves of my Bible. I smooth my hand over the worn edges. I lay it on the coffee table or put it in my bag. I walk away.

And all too often, those words, those wonderful words, the words that breathe life in my soul, I forget to clutch them tightly.

I get snookered into buying into half-truths.

Comparison bluffs me.

I buy into these myths about motherhood.

The devil nags and prods at me with all these lies and accusations.

I get HOODWINKED!

I let myself feel looked down on by this other mother here or I eye with disapproval the differences in that mother over there.

 

But HALLELUJAH!!! Read the quote above.

Run to Jesus. Keep running back to Him. Never stop.

BOTH when I fail and when I get it right.

All that hoodwinkedness and snookerisms and bamboozling that the devil deceives me with will be ripped wide open by my Jesus.

He reveals truth and shows me the mockery of the myths. They don’t make sense.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to be tricked.

So, let’s hear a hurrah………….and GOOD AND LOUD…………..for

#NOMOREHOODWINKEDMAMAS !!!!

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Hoodwinked releases November 3rd. Pre-order now or request it from your library! It is such a good read.

I’ve really enjoyed reading it. I’ve been inspired and encouraged! I’ve underlined and highlighted!

I’ve been blessed by the opportunity to pre-read this book and work as part of the launch team to spread the word about it. I received an ARC of the book, but all opinions and thoughts expressed about it are mine.

I love to be motivated and inspired by other women’s words and lives and stories. Karen and Ruth do a fantastic job sharing stories and  teaching from their experiences and knocking out myths of motherhood in Hoodwinked!

And aren’t all these quotes from the book just good words and wonderful pictures? They’re so pretty and bright and cheery and fun! I’ve just loved them.

And I’m just so thankful for our faithful God. May I be as faithful in return.

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