Give the gift of story this Mother's Day

The stories we are told shape our lives. From the bedtime stories of youth to the tales that change our perspective of life and the world around us. Our mother’s stories have such a great impact on our journey, the decisions we make and the way we tell our own tales as we go through life.

This Mothering Sunday, return the priceless gift of stories and knowledge with a book that says thank you to mum. Speak to her heart with page-turning fiction, memoirs of unforgettable lifetimes and prayer books of inspiration.

Get mum inspired with Debra Green OBE’s Mountain Moving Prayer, a book chock-full of encouraging faith-fuelled prayer to help get through the toughest of challenges.

If encouragement and advice is what mum needs this Mothering Sunday, Hope Rising 365 by Meg Cannon is a thoughtful gift of hope and Bible wisdom. The daily devotional is filled with 365 reflections from Meg and a whole host of female contributors, keeping mum inspired until Mother’s Day 2020!

If your mum is a reader who reads to escape, take her on a priceless journey for a budget cost with a book. Midwife of Borneo is the tale of Wendy Grey, a Newcastle nurse who leaves her comfortable life to run a clinic in a place where medical witchcraft had been the norm prior to her arrival. Follow Wendy’s incredible diaries as she is forced to become a surgeon for her patients as churches back home in the UK pray for her safety.

Another story to get lost in is Realms of Glory, the final volume of the Lindchester Chronicles by Catherine Fox – a series often referred to as the twenty-first-century answer to Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire.

If your mum is a fan of tearjerkers with a lot of heart, Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved  by Kate Bowler is a heart-wrenching memoir of courage and faith. Another memoir of honesty and emotion which speaks to any stressed-out mother is I Thought There Would Be Cake by Katherine Welby-Roberts, a deeply relatable book on navigating life even when things don’t turn out the way you planned.

Not sure exactly what type of book Mum would love most? It’s impossible to go wrong with the new edition of the NLT Holy Bible, the Q & A Bible Verse 5-Year Journal by Carol Petley, or Dorothy M. Stewart’s A Book of Graces – a volume compiled for busy readers by one of Britain’s foremost prayer collectors.

Give Mum a story that will touch her heart in a way no other gift could.