Rachel Mulvaney
Author
Every book in the Honest Grace Series started the same way — with Rachel needing to hear the thing nobody was saying out loud. That you can love God and still be exhausted. That you can love your people and still need a minute to yourself. That some days, a scream counts as a prayer. Thirty days at a time, these are the devotionals she wished someone had handed her first.
Lord, I Am This Close
Thirty days of honest devotions for the woman who loves God and is also, most days, running on fumes. No polish, no performance — just real prayers for real exhaustion, and the reminder that you can be this close to losing it and still be held.
“We’re raising people. Managing households. Working jobs. Loving spouses. Helping aging parents. Wondering who started another group text about something that could have been one paragraph. And somewhere in the middle of all that, we’re also supposed to be having a rich, peaceful, radiant relationship with God. Preferably before someone asks where their other shoe is.
Some days, it really does feel that way. Other days I would like to speak to a manager. Not Him. Everyone else.
This book is for the second kind of day. For the days when your faith is real, but so is your exhaustion.”
Rachel Mulvaney
I Love Jesus, But People Are a Lot
Thirty days of honest devotions for women who love God — and are also completely worn out by everyone else’s group chats, opinions, and casseroles. Real prayers for the people-shaped exhaustion nobody warned you about.
“You are allowed to love people and still need a break from them.
I have never once heard that said out loud in church. I’ve heard ‘love your neighbor’ roughly four thousand times. I’ve heard ‘bear one another’s burdens’ set to a worship chorus. I have never heard anyone say, plainly, that loving people is real work, that it costs something, and that needing a minute away from the people you love most doesn’t make you a worse Christian than the woman who never seems to need one.
So I’m saying it here. Consider this the permission slip nobody handed you at the door.”
Rachel Mulvaney
Prayers for When You Want to Scream
Thirty days of honest devotions for the days when you don’t have the words — just the ache. Real prayers for grief, burnout, and the moments faith feels more like holding on than holding it together.
“There is a candle on my kitchen windowsill that’s been burning, on and off, for about three years… It is down to the very last inch now. The wick leans. The wax has pulled away from the glass on one side, leaving a thin gap along the rim. Some nights I light it out of habit before I even notice how little of it is left. And some nights I catch myself standing in front of it, watching the flame do what flames do — small, steady, completely indifferent to how tired I am — and I think, that’s it. That’s exactly where I am.
Down to the stub. Still lit. Not sure how.”
Rachel Mulvaney
More on the Way
There’s more where this came from — new devotionals for real life, in all its ups and downs, are in development.
Holy Spirit, Help Me Not Text Back
30 Days of Grace for Women Who Type It and Don’t Hit Send
Thirty days of honest devotions for the woman who typed the perfect reply, read it twice, and deleted the whole thing. A little faith, a little self-control, and a lot of grace for the drafts you never sent.
Bless This Mess, Because Wow
30 Days of Grace for the Beautifully Unfinished
Thirty days of honest devotions for the wonderfully unfinished life — the messy kitchen, the half-done to-do list, and the grace to laugh at all of it along the way.