For the love of reading!

I am getting ready to start this book.  Have you read it?  What did you think?  I have heard so many great things so I am excited about what the Lord might be wanting to teach me through it.  

I am currently reading this book as part of my summer women's Bible study at church.  Good stuff!  If you haven't read this, I encourage you to.  It is a study on the names of God and their meaning.  

I am also getting ready to read this.  I have had it recommended to me by a dear friend who is currently reading through it.  I know that this won't be a fun or easy read but I am excited to see what the Lord wants to teach me through it.

Another book on my nightstand....this is pretty self explanatory for the stage of life we are in :)  

I LOVE good books!  What are you reading?  Do you have any suggestions?  

"7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess"

I read this book a couple of weeks ago while I was recovering from gallbladder surgery and it really, really, really made me think.  I would recommend it to anyone.  It is a very countercultural look at life, possessions and extravagance.  I hope to post more about the book as I go back through it and try to process it.  Below is the description of the book that is found on Amazon.  


American life can be excessive, to say the least. That’s what Jen Hatmaker had to admit after taking in hurricane victims who commented on the extravagance of her family’s upper middle class home. She once considered herself unmotivated by the lure of prosperity, but upon being called “rich” by an undeniably poor child, evidence to the contrary mounted, and a social experiment turned spiritual was born.

7 is the true story of how Jen (along with her husband and her children to varying degrees) took seven months, identified seven areas of excess, and made seven simple choices to fight back against the modern-day diseases of greed, materialism, and overindulgence.

Food. Clothes. Spending. Media. Possessions. Waste. Stress. They would spend thirty days on each topic, boiling it down to the number seven. Only eat seven foods, wear seven articles of clothing, and spend money in seven places. Eliminate use of seven media types, give away seven things each day for one month, adopt seven green habits, and observe “seven sacred pauses.” So, what’s the payoff from living a deeply reduced life? It’s the discovery of a greatly increased God—a call toward Christ-like simplicity and generosity that transcends social experiment to become a radically better existence.

Some of our Favorite Books

I thought I would share some of our favorite books with you.  These are our "go to" books and they are also my favorite ones to read to the boys.