Love love this book by 2 moms who have come from the trenches of motherhood and share their wisdom with the rest of us. The format of this book is powerful with alternating chapters being written by 2 authors. It’s like getting a 2 for 1 sale. We as readers get the double the wisdom. Basically each chapter is a devotional and it starts off with one of the 2 authors sharing a true story and then they draw spiritual lessons from that story and then end with prayer. The length of each chapter is perfect for a daily reading.

Highly recommend this book to moms of all ages. You will find yourself nodding your head in agreement, laughing, gasping and simply finding community that you can relate to because their stories are our stories.

One of my favorite quotes from the book is ‘I struggled with the identity shift from fully, functional, respectable adult to overwhelmed, insecure hot mess I had become’

An adorable book for Moms that warmed my heart. I like the little prayers that end each mini-chapter, as they are an inspiration for my own spiritual practice. This book feels to me similar than the Chicken Soup For The Soul series, just with a more deliberate Christian slant, of course.

This book has a devotional quality about it, and while I enjoyed the short snippets of stories, I couldn’t relate to most of them. I have boys, teenage boys, and this book seemed to circle around girls...which helps me zero.
I did, however, like the first person narrative and how personal each story felt. I feel like this was catching up with old friends...women I love, but don’t have much in common with.

While 2/3 of my children are out of elementary school and into middle school (I know, I know--deep breaths and lots of prayers), I do still have one in elementary school. I believe this devotional is great for new moms, but has nuggets of wisdom for moms in all stages of motherhood. Grit & Grace is filled with real mommying moments. Each story translated to a similar event that I have experienced (like sitting by my toddler's hospital bed with no control over the outcome, and being totally dependent on the Lord to heal him and give me strength) or can totally imagine experiencing, and I treasured that each lesson was also tied to a Bible story or scripture. In the Bible and in life, God uses everyday events to teach us, sanctify us, show us his love and cultivate a heart after him. Sometimes I take my life lessons or my Bible lessons individually but don't think about combining them. In the coming weeks, I am going to work harder to tie the lesson that I feel God teaching me through my circumstances to His Word!

Oh my word! This book was amazing. Suzanne and Gretta (because I feel like I know them on a personal level through their writing) have done a phenomenal job at conveying the ups, downs, strengths, weaknesses, comical and serious aspects of motherhood. I absolutely adored this book which I think is meant to be read as a daily devotional style, however, I just kept reading page after page because I could relate to so much. I would highly recommend this book to moms everywhere because it’s so relatable and practical yet has such a deep and encouraging message through Bible stories and prayers.

What a lovely devotional book for moms! While this book is meant to be read over a period of time, I have to be honest - I found myself reading devotional after devotional. The book was beautiful. I found myself resonating with word after word and page after page, especially as a young mom. The stories were relatable, the truths simple but deep and the prayers resonated with my heart. This is a book I will be recommending to friends with young kids.

"Grit and Grace" by Suzanne Gosselin and Gretta Kennedy is a Moms devotional. Grit and Grace is a devotional for Moms written by two Moms. It is excellent. It gives great examples of daily life struggles as a Mom and how they faced these challenges. It also brings in scripture and ties it into the passage. There is a prayer at the end. This book reminds Moms they do not have to be perfect in a world that they may feel they have to be perfect. It is hard to find good solid devotionals with real examples for Moms to help strengthen and gird Moms up. I appreciate the publisher and author for allowing me to read and review this book. I know it will be helpful to many moms.

I really like the devotion like format to this book. It gave me something to look forward to and a way to invest in myself each day. The words of wisdom seasoned my mindset with grace and courage- which are much needed in a busy mom's life. I would recommend this book to others and will be buying a couple copies to share with friends and family.

These devotions are beautifully written, encouraging and and challenges mothers to give themselves grace. Being in the trenches of motherhood is sometimes the most challenging and loneliness of times. These devotions help mothers to look to the Lord and to count each day as a blessing. In these devotions there is also practical advice that mothers can share over coffee, not for comparison but for help and encouragement!

With heartfelt Biblical truths that even the most battle-weary moms will relate to, Suzanne and Gretta's new devotional is full of encouragement to moms, young and old. As a mom to a toddler (almost two!), I can totally relate to feeling like my plate is too full, that other moms are doing better than I am, and that I barely have it all together. These are lies from the enemy, because our worth is in God. He holds the future, he cares about me and he is our strength each and every day. Most of all, He gives us grace.

I especially related to Gretta's story of an unplanned c-section, since I myself had way more interventions than I had hoped for during my first child's birth. Not only did she not come by 42 weeks meaning I had to be induced, but she also was much bigger than we expected. I spent a long time wondering why God didn't allow me to go into labor on my own, but I also grew - our plans are not our own and I learned a lot, even if it wasn't how I planned.

I highly recommend Grit and Grace to any mom in the trenches of life with littles. You will not regret it!

This is a lovely book that will help many moms and I know a lot of hard work and thought has gone into producing it. I am glad it exists. It would suit parents whose kids are on the younger side and I think I missed this implication in the description. As parenting is hard at all levels, even with teenage kids I was interested. I should have paid more attention to the blurb.

Suzanne and Gretta's devotions are helpful but they are pitched at very different spiritual levels. Given the title of the book this may be intentional but it may also be the characters of the authors coming through. This is potentially a good thing as it will appeal to different audiences but when the two styles are so different it feels jarring to flip too and fro between the two authors and I think that choice of layout was an error. Alternating between the two is disconcerting as one author is invariably less relevant. In some ways it would have worked better to have them grouped by author or by topic or even under the headings "Grit" and "Grace".

Eventually you end up identifying with, or at least appreciating, one author more than the other. After a while I skipped over a lot of Suzanne's as I cannot identify with the young child world anymore and I found it quite irritating. The devotion about - you don't have long with them make the most of it - is genuinely agonizing when they are about to leave home. Trust me, you KNOW you don't have long with them and there is nothing you can do about it. Being lectured about something you should have done in the past is not helpful and I did feel like I was being lectured at or worse, at times, patronised.

Gretta, on the other hand, was worth reading and I felt she was trying to pass on God given insights she had learned and that she felt might be helpful. Her devotions felt like guidance that was offered without judgement from a trusted friend. Gretta's tended to be about her kids or situations she had learned from whereas Suzanne's tended to be about herself and what great ordeal she had been through or overcome.

Finally, the contents section needs to link to the devotions on a Kindle. I think some of my thoughts may come from reading in a linear fashion. I guess in reality people will pick out the ones they need as they need them or read them one a day but on the Kindle if there are no links between sections you have to trawl through it all.

All in all helpful, useful but possibly it's been done before and better by people like Ann Spangler.