Enjoy fast, free delivery, exclusive deals, and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime and start saving today with fast, free delivery

Kindle
$5.99

Available instantly

Paperback
$11.35

$11.35 with 13 percent savings

List Price: $12.99

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns

$6.99 delivery Wednesday, May 15

Or fastest delivery Tuesday, May 14. Order within 6 hrs 55 mins

Select delivery location

Only 1 left in stock (more on the way).

$$11.35 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Ships from

Amazon.com

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.

Read full return policy

Payment

Secure transaction

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Details

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

$6.38

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less See less

FREE delivery May 16 - 17. Details

Or fastest delivery May 10 - 15. Details

Select delivery location

Only 1 left in stock - order soon.

$$11.35 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Enhancements you chose aren't available for this seller. Details

${cardName} not available for the seller you chose

${cardName} unavailable for quantities greater than ${maxQuantity}.

Ships from and sold by ThriftBooks-Seattle.

Other sellers on Amazon

New & Used (23) from $6.38 & FREE Shipping

Follow the author

Lea Ann Garfias

+ Follow

More books from this author

Rocking Ordinary: Holding It Together with Extraordinary Grace Paperback – August 2, 2016

by Lea Ann Garfias (Author)

4.7 50 ratings

See all formats and editions

{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$11.35","priceAmount":11.35,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"11","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"35","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"%2Be%2FvRj%2FsTJiS7V9ICTFsl8dYZMQoGo8XQ1Fsyqp8xO0Xkkesuk8dVxj56mKVICJo5rBpQkNJ565kQ0sBE6hkxxbk2WPoPw1cxZSnjRz5J4XKOqvw1iIlbPyW5xHBYp%2B0GvfKDCxIU8mJ1sa81x99aw%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$6.38","priceAmount":6.38,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"6","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"38","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"%2Be%2FvRj%2FsTJiS7V9ICTFsl8dYZMQoGo8XnHdl08PNTJXXe0a3a1WUwbQay2kbuGKUK3BB8DVM%2B75%2FxUbULM%2Bx4%2BE2Zk5lMLrWzpMz5aRCMxjPO57ihNma68BEx14BuI3c4EPpl8EMMMUFYU9N0m%2BotFdOzWfqreoYhXrZ2CtZDK3XZc5S4m%2FvrQ%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

Additional Details

Small Business

This product is from a small business brand. Support small.

Can your everyday life make a difference?
If you admit failures, can God still use you?
How can you influence those around you intentionally and biblically?

In Rocking Ordinary, Lea Ann Garfias comes along-side you like a true friend and shows you how an ordinary life can be lived with extraordinary influence. A gifted teacher and storyteller, she meets you exactly where you are - in the everyday, messy, stressful, kids screaming, laundry piling, everyday life, and encourages you, loves you, and roots for you as you begin rocking your ordinary.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Is it possible to use your life to make an extraordinary difference? Yes! Rocking Ordinary is a wonderful reminder to moms who want to know that what they do matters. Even when there are piles of laundry and bills and dishes, what you do impacts all your relationships. Lea Ann offers inspiration and wonderful advice on how to walk through the struggles and find yourself in the arms of an amazing God. What you do matters because you matter to Jesus! This is a beautiful book to read and share with a friend." -Tricia Goyer, author of 55 books, including Prayers that Changed History

"You hold in your hand: hope. You may be saddled with motherly stress, too much month left after the money's flown from your purse, or the crushing weight of expectations gone amuck. Even so, there is hope, and Lea Ann Garfias has authentically addressed this seemingly scarce commodity."
-Mary DeMuth, author of 31 books including Worth Living: How God's Wild Love Makes You Worthy

"Rocking Ordinary holds out a warm and welcoming hand to women. Offering tender compassion and friendship, this is no ordinary book. Its pages reach deeply into obtaining healing, strength for relationships, and love to invest in family. This book will encourage and inspire you to embrace the awesomeness of your ordinary."-Israel & Brook Wayne, co-founders of Family Renewal, LLC

From the Back Cover

"This book is like sitting down with a cup of tea and a friend I didn't even realize I had been deeply missing. There is so much honesty and healing in the chapters of this book." --Debby Gerth, ordinary mom of 3
Can your everyday life make a difference?If you admit failures, can God still use you?How can you influence those around you intentionally and biblically?
In Rocking Ordinary, Lea Ann Garfias comes alongside you like a true friend and shows you how an ordinary life can be lived with extraordinary influence. A gifted teacher and storyteller, she meets you exactly where you are -- in the everday, messy, stressful, kids screaming, laundry piling, everyday life, and encourages you, loves you, and roots for you as you begin rocking your ordinary

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Leaf Press (August 2, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0892217448
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0892217441
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,052,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10,958 in Christian Women's Issues
- #110,725 in Parenting & Relationships (Books)

Customer Reviews:
4.7 50 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Lea Ann Garfias

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Lea Ann Garfias is a homeschool graduate, homeschooling mom of 6, and author of 5 books, including 4 on homeschooling. She lives with her husband David in the Dallas area. Besides "author," she holds the titles "professional violinist," "French press owner," and "friend."

Customer reviews

4.7 out of 5

50 global ratings

2 star

0%

1 star

0%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Anni Welborne

Just in time!

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016

Verified Purchase

Growing up, I was told frequently what an amazing kid I was, how smart, how I was going to change the world and do great things for God. Fast forward a (few) decades, and I'm struggling. In recent years, it has dawned on me that...I'm not all that. I've not accomplished great things. I'm not running that orphans ministry I secretly planned. I'm not a renowned teacher. I'm not ...anything much. I'm just ordinary. How on earth can I accomplish great things for God when I cannot even consistently keep my house cleaned up? How on earth am I going to write that life-changing book when I struggle to even to change over the laundry from the washer to the dryer without having to rewash a forgotten load or re-re-re-tumble a load in the dryer at least once a week? How am I going to write those wonderfully insightful journals that will be found after my death when I feel that all my words were used up by mid-afternoon and I just stumble exhausted, numbly-silent into bed at night? God must be so disappointed in me. I doubt I'll hear, "Well done, my good and faithful servant." It will probably be more along the lines of, "Done, servant." I'll be lucky to get a hair-thin circlet of 10 karat gold or more likely, a brass barrette, let alone a crown with jewels.

Such were my secret thoughts of recent months. Enter Mrs. Garfias's book. I gasped several times reading it because she kept describing the way I felt so accurately. (I thought I was the only one who....) Again and again, Mrs. Garfias demonstrates her deep understanding of a woman's desire to be significant, to do significant things, even heroic things. But here's the huge difference between this book and the myriad motivational books out there which encourage women to find their significance in achievement. The difference is that this book requires the reader to re-evaluate one's definition of success and to even suggest a new definition entirely. Rather, significance is to be found in faithfulness. I'm still chewing on that truth, but the longer I chew, the more savory it becomes as I begin to comprehend the paradigm shift this kind of thinking requires. **This** is the life God gave me. This life, not some other. And He will equip me to live it with grace and purpose.

Thank you, Mrs. Garfias, to help me understand that faithfulness (aka, rocking ordinary) is true success. I'm so thankful!

5 people found this helpful

Helpful

just an ordinary person

a book for christian women

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2016

Verified Purchase

Reading this book quickly (as I am apt to do with my books) will not do it justice. It, and the suggested Scripture readings, are meant to be read thoughtfully. Thoughts and lessons learned are meant to be journaled, and the questions ending each chapter discussed with a friend. This seems to be good amount of "work" but it is well worth it in order to absorb the lessons the author has learned in her 40 young years, which have been full of hard but common, relatable family and spiritual lessons & adventures. There is something in her story for us all to relate to, and these things can be useful in helping others who might share what she has experienced. Lea Ann encourages women that God can and will make a good, (and even extraordinary) work out of any ordinary life, including the painful parts, which is an important concept for believers to realize. This book showed me that God has a special purpose for each and every life. I didn't think so much of my self as I read it, but of ALL the women I have known (family, friends, and historical figures). NONE of us is without some kind of influence, the most beautiful of all is that most of us are humble enough not to even realize the impact we have made for good. And that is God in us.

Helpful

C. Harbor

perfect children, perfect marriage and relationships

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2016

Verified Purchase

If women believed what our eyes tell us, we would think that to be successful we should only show the world the edited versions of our lives. You know, perfectly clean houses, perfect children, perfect marriage and relationships, all while doing yoga, running 5Ks, crafting, sewing clothes, running a charity event and cooking dinner.

Um no.

Rocking Ordinary was a breath of fresh air. The author tells her personal story in such a way that it makes you want to seek her out and say “me too!” Lea Ann says that if you’re in a place in your life where you drive a mini-van and wear yoga pants because that’s part of your life right now, then rock that. Make right now the best time of your life. Those precious moments we have with our kids, rock that. The relationships we're entrusted with, rock them. The message from the book is clear: if we stay in His will and do things His way we have the potential to live rich, full lives in all our ordinariness. No need for comparison.

I received an advanced copy of this book to review. Please note that I also purchased a copy of the book -- she's just that personable.

Helpful

Lia M. Hasier

A Must Read for All Ladies!

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016

Verified Purchase

Lea Ann provides an on time message for women running the race, to be all God has created us to be. What she so graciously reminds us is, the race is not about who crosses the finish line first or if we complete the race in record time, but instead that we NEVER stop pushing towards the finish line, NEVER stop seeking all that He has for us. We all fall short, but we must get up, wipe off our knees and keep running the race, through HIS grace. We were created with a GREAT purpose ladies. Even on those days when the sink is over flowing with dishes, laundry doesn't seem to stop, the kids have you pulling out your hair, and you are still asking yourself at 7 pm, "What's for dinner?" Don't quit, we were created to Rock Our Ordinary! (I did receive an advance copy to review. All opinions are my own.)

One person found this helpful

Helpful

buckeyemom4

this book is a good reminder and a great book for moms of young ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2016

I will state that I had an advanced reader's copy for my honest opinion.
That being said, this book is a good reminder and a great book for moms of young kids who are wrestling with identity and motherhood. In a world that says you can have it all, there is a clamoring whisper that says that may not be the truth. I think moms all hear that whisper, how we respond to it is what makes or breaks us.
Rocking ordinary gives us moms permission to not be Christian Pintrest mom or wife- and to be who God has created us to be.
I will say, for me, I ranked it 4 stars because I think the message is important and I want to support those sharing it as it will be heard, but the writing style wasn't always my favorite.
I think Lea Ann's heart is beautiful and I am thankful that she is standing up and telling women it's more than okay to be ordinary.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Return this item for free

Follow the author

Image Unavailable