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    Traveling Light for Mothers
    Traveling Light for Mothers
    Traveling Light for Mothers
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    Traveling Light for Mothers

    By Max Lucado

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    This morning, somewhere between your first step on the floor to your last step out the door, you stuffed your bag full. No, not your purse, or a diaper bag, or your child's lunch box, but one created in your mind. And you didn't stuff it with books, band-aids, or baby food-you filled it with burdens. The kind of burdens moms carry.

    The suitcase of guilt. A sack of discontent. You drape a duffel bag of weariness on one shoulder and a hanging bag of worry on the other. No wonder you're so tired at the end of the day. Toting those kind of bags is exhausting.

    Why don't you try traveling light? Try it for the sake of those you love so dearly: your husband, your children, your parents. Have you ever considered the impact that excess baggage has on relationships?

    God wants to use you, you know. But how can he if you're exhausted?

    Using the comforting message of the twenty-third Psalm, Max Lucado reminds mothers to listen to God's tender voice urging us to release those burdens we were never meant to bear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateFeb 2, 2003
    ISBN9781418538422
    Traveling Light for Mothers
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    Max Lucado

    Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado Twitter.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

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      Traveling Light for Mothers - Max Lucado

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      TravelingLightMoms_0002_001

      TRAVELING LIGHT

      FOR MOTHERS

      Max Lucado

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      TRAVELING LIGHT FOR MOMS

      Copyright © 2002 Max Lucado. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Published by W Publishing Group, a unit of Thomas Nelson, Inc., P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee 37214.

      Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations used in this book are from the Holy Bible, New Century Version, copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by W Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee 37214. Used by permission.

      Other Scripture references are from the following sources:

      The Living Bible (TLB), copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois. Used by permission.

      The Message (MSG), copyright © 1993. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

      The New King James Version (NKJV), copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.

      The Jerusalem Bible (JB), copyright © 1968 by Darton, Longman, & Todd, Ltd., and Doubleday & Co., Inc.

      The Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

      The New English Bible (NEB), copyright © 1961, 1970 by the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1961, 1970. Reprinted by permission.

      The Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois. All rights reserved.

      ISBN 0-8499-9048-3

      ISBN 0-8499-4410-4

      Printed in the United States of America

      02 03 04 05 06 PHX 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      For my three nieces

      Dana, Michelle, and Allison.

      May God bless your mothering.

      CONTENTS

      1. MOM’S PURSE

      2. I’LL DO IT MY WAY

      The Burden of Self-Reliance

      3. THE PRISON OF WANT

      The Burden of Discontent

      4. I WILL GIVE YOU REST

      The Burden of Weariness

      5. WHADDIFS AND HOWELLS

      The Burden of Worry

      6. IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE

      The Burden of Hopelessness

      7. A HEAVENLY EXCHANGE

      The Burden of Guilt

      Notes

      "Come to me, all of you

      who are weary and

      carry heavy burdens,

      and I will give you rest."

      MATTHEW 11:28 NLT

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      MOM’S PURSE

      I’ve never ceased to be amazed at what a mom can find in her purse. There’s the typical stuff, like a tissue for a stuffy nose, a quarter for the gumball machine, a library card to check out a book. But then there’s the incredible stuff, like a blowup beachball, a map of the entire United States, a collection of medicine that could cure any illness!

      I guess moms learn early that they have to be prepared. It all starts with that diaper bag that has zippers galore and compartments begging to be filled so that no mother need be caught unprepared when spit-up (or a more unpleasant discharge) ruins the outfit and threatens to ruin the outing. From then on, moms seem to know how to pack backpacks for school, gym bags for games, footlockers for camp with anything and everything that might be needed.

      Now, I’ve never carried a purse, but I’ve never been one to travel light.

      I’ve tried. Believe me, I’ve tried. But ever since I stuck three fingers in the air and took the Boy Scout pledge to be prepared, I’ve been determined to be exactly that—prepared.

      Prepared for a bar mitzvah, baby dedication, or costume party.

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