As the wife of medical missionary Dr. Tom Sloan, Billie Sloan lovingly and tenderly raised their eight children in the primitive Indian villages of the southern Mexico mission field. Her husband’s faithful companion in the ministry, she also trained and homeschooled their children and managed a household without the luxuries of running water or electricity—balancing both responsibilities capably and gracefully. In this book, Billie Sloan draws on decades of mothering to share the struggles, defeats, joys, and victories of nurturing children. She is the first to confess that she is neither a perfect mother nor an expert on motherhood. But she has found constant motivation and strength in her desires to please the Lord and to bring up her children for Him. And time and again, she has found that only through God’s grace can mothers raise children who love and serve the Lord. Billie Sloan’s wisdom and lessons learned are an invaluable resource for those in all stages of the mothering journey to glean from, be encouraged by, and share with others. "The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him." Nahum 1:7