Life is busy. In between all the tasks we try to accomplish each day and all the roles we are trying to fill, it can be hard to spend the amount of time we’d like to in devotions each week. Regardless of how much we know we need that time each day with God, it’s amazing how quickly everything else can come between us and Him. This is why small devotional booklets like Amazing Grace for a Woman’s Heartand Loved Beyond Measure can serve such a great purpose, giving us a few brief moments to stop and turn our focus back to God.

“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind, but now, I see.” Amazing Grace for a Woman’s Heart begins each week with a stanza from the song “Amazing Grace.” It sets the tone throughout the devotions each week to keep our focus directly on God’s Amazing Grace and how we experience and receive that grace in our lives daily.
 
Each week in this 5-week devotional includes devotions with both Scripture and a story to help illustrate the truth being presented in the Scripture passage. At the end of each week, there is a journaling page that includes a couple of questions to guide us in reflecting on the prior week’s devotions. Throughout the booklet, it continually points us back to God’s grace. Whether we are facing suffering or rejoicing in God’s blessings, God’s grace remains the focus, reminding us that “By God’s amazing grace, you can say with joy: I’m a daughter of God, dearly loved! I’m created and chosen especially by him!”

Loved Beyond Measure is another 5-week daily devotional booklet for women. This one focuses on God’s love for us and seeks to remind us that God’s love “has no limits” and “remains sure.” Most everyone is familiar with the verse John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” But it’s easy to let our familiarity with a verse cause us to lose sight of how important this statement is. How much God loves us, how much He has done to show us that love, especially when we’ve done nothing to deserve it, is something we can all stand to be reminded of on a regular basis. This devotional seeks to renew in us that sense of awe regarding God’s love for us.

Though similar in setup to Amazing Grace for a Woman’s Heart, instead of a journal page at the end of each week, Loved Beyond Measure includes a key reminder for you to take with you from the devotionals that week. Throughout the five weeks, it does a good job of keeping the focus on God and His love for us, reminding us that “this love is higher than the sky, deeper than the ocean. This is love that extends from east to west and beyond. Here is love that can’t be stopped, love that will never end. This is love that died for you—personally—and rose again to give you life forever!”

I would recommend both of these booklets, whether you are looking for a devotional to give as a gift or to use yourself. These brief devotional booklets allow us to pause the chaos of our daily lives and to reflect on God’s Word and how important that is in our lives.