

Nancy Franson
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@nancyfranson
Wife of The Beloved Swede, Granny to The Royal Grands. I love Pittsburgh, Christmas, and the beach more than most people.



















Last month, I signed a contract with Baker Books to write: “Mothering as Worship.” It’s a simple and highly borrowed idea (from Brother Lawrence, the Apostle Paul, Kathleen Norris, Elisabeth Elliot, and my mother) that anything can become worship if we do it in God’s presence. It’s about developing a steady, steam-of-consciousness prayer life, as if Jesus is always in the room with us, because He is. It’s about nothing ever being wasted, including those unseen moments, on the floor, wiping up squished grapes. This is not a parenting book. I have no idea what I’m doing in that regard, God help me, but I do know how to describe life in an honest way. This book will be filled with real, hard, and beautiful scenes of motherhood and how to live those moments for God’s glory, even when you feel like you’re barely hanging on, or too busy with joy to stop and pray. I want to bless you, mothers of young children, because I am in the trenches with you. Pray that I will. Pray that God will give me time in the margins to write this book with all my heart. I cannot process anything if I don’t write - cannot think if I don’t write - so I figured I might as well turn this season of my life into the book I need to read myself, hoping that it might also be a gift to you, my readers. It won’t be out for some time, as books go, but I’ll share snippets on the topic as I write (probably using #MotheringAsWorship, because that is how #TalkingBacktoPurityCulture was born). And yes, it will include some of my poetry.
