Peace Pirates: Conquering the Beliefs and Behaviors that Steal your Treasure

Motherhood is truly one of the greatest and sweetest gifts from God, amen? And it’s so much more than just a job or a title, isn’t it? It is truly a treasure. So why do women sometimes find themselves settling for a depleted and frustrating experience? So many women (me included) have felt they failed their families at one point or another in life.

Being a mom is one of the most important, yet difficult roles we will ever fill. But yet, if we are being honest, many of us don’t feel like we are measuring up. Deep in our hearts, we believe the lie that we are helpless to maintain the peace in our homes.

As a result, our hearts and homes are constantly being bombarded and defeated by what Ashley calls the “Peace Pirates”. If we allow it, these peace pirates will take away the peace and security God paid for His beloved Daughters to have.

As a wife, mother of four boys, and blogger to many thousands of mothers, author Ashley Willis also experienced the stress of trying to be the “best mom” she could be for God. All the while she feared she was missing out on His true treasure.

With God’s help, Ashley found her treasure in the midst of the struggle.

And you can too.

You can remain faithful through all seasons of motherhood, even the difficult ones, and be empowered to lay claim and hold onto your peace in Him!

This awesome book, Peace Pirates, will teach you how to stay “treasured up” by first helping you to identify the four stressors (peace pirates) that challenge your focus and contentment.

I love to study the table of contents before I begin to dig in to any book and I will share it here for you:

Part One: Confessions of a Pirate Mom

CHAPTERS:

One: Braving the Adventure
Two: Shipwrecked
Three: Walking the Plank

Part Two: The Four Peace Pirates

Four: Mommy Martyrdom
Five: Comparison Chaos
Six: Clenching Control
Seven: Excessive Expectations

Part Three: Treasure Up

Eight: Mary, Imperfect and Faithful
Nine: Mary, Adorned in Faithfulness
Ten: Bowing to the Throne of Faithfulness

Ashley has created these beautiful leather “Shalom” bracelets. They are available on Etsy

If the link isn’t working, then she has temporarily run out of bracelets and is creating more.

Note from the Author:

“To give a little background on the bracelet, the symbols on the bracelet are the ancient Hebrew word pictures for shalom. It is the earliest way Hebrews would’ve written out shalom, or “peace”, to one another. When you look at what each individual word picture represents, the definition for peace is:

Breaking the Authority Established by Chaos

When I learned about this, it changed my whole perspective about what Peace really is. So, I thought the bracelet could serve as a great reminder. This is something I unpack in chapter 3 of my book.” ~ Ashley

Are you a mom who is struggling to find peace in the midst of the chaos?

Like the rest of us, have you found yourself struggling with impatience and lashing out with harsh words you truly don’t mean towards the ones you love most in the world? And now you are overcome with guilt? Or do you have a friend who desperately is searching for the encouragement found in this book.

We will be giving away a copy of this book to one random reader on June 23rd. And entering this giveaway is super easy. All you need to do is comment below with your answer to this question:

What is one of the ‘treasures’ of Motherhood you have stored up in your heart?

Winner must reside in the United States.

Live Loved in Christ,

Peace Pirates: Conquering Beliefs & Behaviors that Steal your Treasure @ freshgracefortoday

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About Us

Photo Credit: Ashley Willis, Canva

Ashley Willis is one of America’s most widely-read relationship bloggers. She writes primarily on issues related to faith, marriage and motherhood. Along with her husband, Dave, she founded StrongerMarriages.org.

Ashley has a BA in Communication from Georgetown College and a middle grade teaching certificate from Eastern Kentucky University. She taught middle school English, Science, History, and Bible before deciding to be at home with her four young sons, Cooper, Connor, Chandler, and Chatham.

She hit the jackpot when she married her very best friend and favorite author/pastor/everything in the world, Dave Willis. Together, they work to create marriage-building resources and events throughout the United States and online. Dave was the teaching pastor at Stevens Creek Church, a nondenominational church with the roots of the church coming from the Church of God denomination, for ten years.

They often spoke together at church together, and Ashley led women’s Bible studies and often did pastoral counseling with wives and moms. Dave and Ashley also do initial pastoral counseling for couples together. They both recently joined the team at MarriageToday, an international marriage ministry, as content creators and speakers. They live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas.

For additional resources, please visit DaveAndAshleyWillis.com.