I love reading so much! I don’t always have tons of time for it, but when I do I soak in as much as I can. I love fiction. I love the way you can get lost in another time, another world. Sometimes I get so in that I almost forget these people are not my friends & family. Seriously, I have been so sucked in that I have almost prayed for characters in books 😂 that’s when you know it’s a really great story! I also really love doing Bible Studies and reading books full of wisdom & advice, and I really, really love reading the Bible! How about you guys? Readers or no? If you are a reader, I would love for you to share your recommendations in the comments so I can add to my already very long list of books to read 😆
As I was saying, I really do love to read, so this summer with an extended vacation time I decided it was a good idea to start and try to finish 5 different books, along with my daily Bible reading. Kind of ridiculous I know, but I just got caught up 😆. Anyway, I read some good stuff so I thought I’d share it here with you. I had started reading Where The Crawdads Sing at the gym before summer hit. I love to read on the treadmill because if you can find something that sucks you in the time just flies by! Crawdads definitely did that for me! The only problem with that one is that there were times when I was reading that tears flowed, and I’m pretty sure my fellow gym goers probably thought I was a weirdo. I took that one with me to the beach and finished it there, just in time to catch the movie. It was a good one, sad, but very good!
Next I started four more, two books (one advice & one fiction), one study, along with my Optivia book. Yes, I did Optivia, but that is another story for another time. I have to be honest and admit I am not quite done with that book. It holds a ton of really good information and advice in its over 500, very small print pages. I’ve actually made it to page 472, but when I read it my eyes get super heavy after about two pages and have to put it down and go to sleep 😴 Thankfully I had the other three! I read, Fear Is Not The Boss of Me by Jennifer Allwood and Orphan Beach by Laura Thomas. I also started a Bible Study by Christine Caine called 20/20. All three were amazing in their on way. Fear Is Not The Boss Of Me is chock-full of great advice, humor, and encouragement. It’s an easy read and I love that Jennifer Allwood talks to you like you’re one of her girls friends over for coffee. I definitely give it a 10 out of 10 😊. Orphan Beach was the second Christian Fiction book that I’ve read and it was so good! It had drama, sadness, love, happy, all the things you want in a book. It was written in a way that I thought she had jumped into my life with my friends and family and told our tale. The characters in this book prayed together and for each other and encouraged each other with God’s Word. I had never read a book with this kind of content and I loved it so much! It was like the real life of a believer written in a made up, very exciting story. I also give it a 10 out of 10!
And finally, we have Christine’s study 20/20. I just finished it up today. Along with that study, for the last month I have also been reading A Million Little Ways by Emily Freeman for the 2nd time and doing a book club to go with it, but I’ll save that review for another day 😂 Back to 20/20, like I said, I just finished it this morning and I really want to recommend it! Not only recommend it, but it’s really the whole reason for this blog post. Seen, Chosen, Sent, that is the message of her study. Christine has been seen, chosen, sent in a mighty way, that’s for sure, but I have been too, and so have you! If you are a believer like me, in the wonder working power of Jesus, we are sent! We are called, we are chosen and we have work to do! We who know Jesus, know him because someone took the time to share him with us, right? So it is up to us to carry on! Christine talks in the last video about watching the Olympics and the relay races and the importance of passing the baton to the next racer. There is a beautiful exchange that happens in the passing of the baton, and without it there’s no finish. Do you have a Jesus story? If so, it’s time to pass it on! If you haven’t had a Jesus story yet, today could be the day! I would love to tell you all that I know! I would love to tell you my story, and if you have a Jesus story please share it in the comments. It would make my heart so happy for this page to be a place of Jesus stories! Redemption stories! Set free stories!
We really are running a race guys! We really do have a part to play. God’s Word (which I believe with my whole heart) says in Hebrews 12:1 - Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us!
We are truly in a race of time and we have the best trainer in the world available to us! Let us seek Him, Know Him, love Him and be loved by Him, and then let us pass that baton to the next generation so they can pass it to the next and they can pass it to the next and so on! It’s time guys, to tell our story and to share His Good News and in telling our story, let us live to make HIStory known to the world 🌎♥️
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