True Girl Mom-Daughter Devos: with Coloring Experience

By Dannah Gresh

Want help talking to your tween about modesty?

Tweens aren’t meant to grapple with modesty and body image issues alone. But many moms don’t know quite how to talk about these issues.

True Girl Mom-Daughter Devos fills that gap. A companion to True Girl, it cements the truths of that book and provides an opportunity for moms to talk through these important issues with their daughters. It’s not just a book, but a connecting experience for mothers and daughters. Together they’ll go on a journey to meet with their Creator and learn to see themselves through His eyes.

True Girl Mom-Daughter Devos has a simple format of 30 daily devotions. It features:

• Weekly interactive conversation starters
• A leader’s guide appendix at the end
• Downloadable resources at the author’s website.

The True Girl Series exists to bring moms and daughters together for age-appropriate, biblical conversations about true beauty, modesty, and purity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Release date: Aug 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9780802498991

Dannah Gresh

Dannah Gresh lives in the mountains of Pennsylvania with her husband, Bob, their children, Robby and Lexi, and their Labradoodle, Stormie. The Greshes founded Pure Freedom, a ministry that has provided biblical retreats and teaching resources for more than 500,000 people all over the world. Dannah has appeared as a guest on programs such asFamilyLife Today, The 700 Club, and Focus on the Family.

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© 2017 by

DANNAH GRESH

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

Some content taken from THE ONE YEAR® MOTHER-DAUGHTER DEVO, by Dannah Gresh. Copyright © 2010. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

Illustration of the three girls on page 10 taken from It’s Great to Be a Girl! © 2015 by Dannah Gresh. Published by Harvest House Publishers. Used by permission.

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Edited by Cheryl Molin

Author photo: Steve Smith

Cover and interior design, illustrations by Julia Ryan [www.DesignByJulia.com]

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gresh, Dannah, 1967- author.

Title: True girl mom-daughter devos with coloring experience : 35 days to explore the power of modesty / by Dannah Gresh.

Description: Chicago : Moody Publishers, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017027188 (print) | LCCN 2017030416 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802495488 | ISBN 9780802417367

Subjects: LCSH: Mothers and daughters--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Girls--Religious life. | Beauty, Personal. | Devotional exercises.

Classification: LCC BV4529.18 (ebook) | LCC BV4529.18 .G74255 2017 (print) | DDC 248.8/431--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017027188

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I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works: my soul knows it very well.

{Psalm 139:14}

Welcome to the True Girl Mom•Daughter Devos with Coloring Experience. May the pages of this book help you to know very well that you are a masterpiece created by God.

Dannah

Contents

Introduction

Bonus Coloring Experience

Week #1

The Master Artist

Coloring Experience #1

Week #2

The Counterfeiter

Coloring Experience #2

Week #3

The Confusion

Coloring Experience #3

Week #4

Protecting the Masterpiece

Coloring Experience #4

Week #5

The Art Show

Coloring Experience #5

Week #6

The Bottom Line

Coloring Experience #6

Week #7

Finding True Beauty

Coloring Experience #7

Note to Moms

Notes

Publisher’s Note for the eBook Version

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Introduction

Welcome to the True Girl Mom•Daughter Devos with Coloring Experience. This book is kind of like a study tool for True Girl: Discover the Secrets of True Beauty. If you want to go deeper, this is the book for you.

During each week of devos, I will help you:

improve YOUR understanding of true beauty & modesty as you read or review the content of one chapter in True Girl: Discover the Secrets of True Beauty.

renew YOUR love relationship with Jesus through five simple daily devotions.

strengthen YOUR mother/daughter relationship as you talk about true beauty and modesty and end your week with a coloring experience!

If you’ve already read True Girl: Discover the Secrets of True Beauty, you’re good to go. Dive in! Throughout this book, I’ll be encouraging you to read or review chapters in that book. You decide if you need the review. If you haven’t read the book, read the chapter assigned before you start a new week of devos. You can do this book without the other, but I highly recommend the complete experience.

Now, here is a quick review of the final pages of True Girl: Discover the Secrets of True Beauty, just in case you’re skipping that book. (I hope you won’t!) Take a look at this power verse:

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.

(1 Peter 3:3–4 NIV)

When do you get unfading beauty? You get it when your inner self is made beautiful through a love relationship with Jesus.

What 1 Peter 3:3–4 is really challenging is this: Do you spend more time in front of the mirror making yourself externally beautiful, or do you spend more time developing your inner beauty through quiet communion with God? (This is thoroughly explained in True Girl: Discover the Secrets of True Beauty.)

This book is everything you need to take my True Girl Beauty Challenge. Here’s how it works:

Challenge yourself each day to spend a little more time with God than you spend working on your external self. Although I don’t want you to get caught up in watching the clock, I know that pushing yourself in this area of discipline will change you immensely. Maybe you take about fifteen minutes to get ready each morning—set a goal of spending twenty minutes a day with God.

I want you to do this for the next seven weeks, for five out of seven days a week. WHOA! That sounds like a big investment of time, doesn’t it? Well, I’ve been doing it for twenty-three YEARS! Do you know what’s happened? I’ve changed from a girl who disliked what I saw in the mirror so much that I would not look in it, to a woman who looks in the mirror and thinks: I’m a masterpiece created by God!

Working on my internal beauty has helped me to accept my external