New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker, with playful hilarity, shameless honesty, and refreshing insight, assures readers they have all the pluck they need for vibrant, courageous, grace-filled lives.
Jen Hatmaker believes backbone is the birthright of every woman. Women have been demonstrating resiliency and resolve since forever. They have incredibly strong shoulders to bear loss, hope, grief, and vision. She laughs at the days to come is how the ancient wisdom writings put it.
But somehow women have gotten the message that pain and failure mean they must be doing things wrong, that they messed up the rules or tricks for a seamless life. As it turns out, every last woman faces confusion and loss, missteps and catastrophic malfunctions, no matter how much she is doing “right.” Struggle doesn’t mean they’re weak; it means they’re alive.
Jen Hatmaker, beloved author, Big Sister Emeritus, and Chief BFF, offers another round of hilarious tales, frank honesty, and hope for the woman who has forgotten her moxie. Whether discussing the grapple with change (“Everyone, be into this thing I’m into! Except when I’m not. Then everyone be cool.”) or the time she drove to the wrong city for a fourth-grade field trip (“Why are we in San Antonio?”), Jen parlays her own triumphs and tragedies into a sigh of relief for all normal, fierce women everywhere who, like her, sometimes hide in the car eating crackers but also want to get back up and get back out, to live undaunted “in the moment” no matter what the moments hold.
This One’s For the Girls JHat hits her stride with Of Mess and Moxie. Having read all her books, it’s these “stories” which have helped me write my own story, own what I believe, and learn how to say it.
This One’s For the Girls We’re all a little bit mess and a little bit moxie, and author Jen Hatmaker reminds us that we need both to make the world spin. Our messes…the hard, terrible moments of life, the sadness that overcomes, the moment when all things seem to be ending…those are the moments that can either break us or make us. And how we respond? That’s our Moxie. That’s our way of saying, you know what, we can make it, we can do it, we can survive this.
I didn’t think I would like this book, but in the end it warmed my heart and lifted my soul… To be honest, I’m not really sure how to review this book. When I first saw it on a “coming soon” list, I greeted it with an equal mix of interest and disdain. I wasn’t interested in liking the author. I wasn’t interested in liking the book. However, the description kept pulling me in. I’d like to be clear on my comments about the author. I have read none of Mrs Hatmaker’s other books, and, in fact, until this book had never even heard of her. But upon doing some research her life…