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  Once again I was lucky enough to be on the ARC team for another book by LJ Evans. Since I have discovered LJ she has become one of my top 5 must read authors. LJ’s books are like Christmas Day. Or your birthday if you’re like me and obnoxiously celebrate both. :) You count down the days until it happens with great expectation and excitement and then it gets there and you almost don’t want it to be there because then it will be over and you have to wait another 364 days for the magic to come by again. Thankfully for all of us LJ writes more than one book a year so we are all #blessed in that aspect. I’m always super excited to get and read her books, but it’s a mixed feeling of not wanting to start reading it because then it will be over, and I can’t wait to read it and see what happens. Oh the struggle of being a book lover! I had some FEELINGS over Parker and Fallon. I felt like they were real people and at several points I wished they were real people so I could take t...

  Buckle Up Buttercup, because Sadie Hatley is finally getting her story!!!! And it did not disappoint at all! The only thing I didn't like about this book is that it ended. I could have kept reading for 1000 more pages.  L.J. Evans is a Masterclass in how to write Romantic Suspense (that's not so scary you can't sleep at night) with witty banter, heroines who kick butt (figuratively and literally). Her books are full of real people with real problems. And I think that's one of the things I appreciate the most about her writing. Yes, her books are an escape for me, but they also show that whatever you're going through in life, everyone else is also going through something.  In the case of Sadie and Rafe alot of those issues they contained to themselves and kept the hurt and pain inside of them, in order to be strong for others and what they thought they needed to be. But L.J. shows us that not only is it okay to let people in, but the beauty and redemption that come...

  Hey friends! I'm sorry for not posting TBR, ya girl has been sick for the past two weeks. But I'm finally coming back to life, so here is the recap for today! Also some of the pics aren't in order and I don't have it in me to fix them so, sorry. 😁

Happy Tuesday Friends! And welcome back to Leviticus! Today we are in Chapters 8-10 and things liven up a bit, so let's dive right in. We start off with the differences between Anointing, Consecrating and Ordination, all three of which are happening in the Tabernacle as they get ready for their first weekend service :) I thought it was neat to know that all this happened about one week after they finished building the Tabernacle. They wasted no time meeting with God!  After being enslaved in Egpyt and then in the wilderness, for I believe one year at this point, I bet they were beyond excited to have their own place to worship God. Can you imagine not being able to do that and finally you're able to again? It reminds me a bit of when the Covid-19 Pandemic began, and then kept going. Our church was closed for months which I wholeheartedly agreed with. We learned how to do church online. And then church opened back up, but thanks to me being immunocompromised I wasn't able to...

Welcome back to Leviticus Friends! Today we are in chapters 5-7 and I'll admit on the first pass through of it, while listening to it on my Bible app and reading along, I didn't make a ton of notes. But when I listened to the pod things made more sense, and I got a lot more from it. Which is why I highly reccomend listening to the pod after doing your reading. TL breaks it down and shares historical and meanings of things that those of us not steeped in our Hebrew, might not know.  Things I found interesting: She mentioned that God is the only one who has spoken so far in Leviticus. Tomorrow we get a switchup with Moses and Aaron but so far the first 7 chapters have all been God talking! We talk about blood some more, and she again makes the note that it is a reminder of the fall and that God is working on rebuilding Eden. She also notes that blood is given back to God because God is the giver and taker of life.  A question I had, when we were in 5:11, talking about the rich a...

  Hello there friends! We made it to Leviticus! Wahoo!! I love the Old Testament but I will admit some books and chapters can be harder to connect with. So some of these posts in Leviticus may not be huge, but again it's about showing up and reading God's word everyday. And knowing that even when we don't think it's going to make sense or hit us, he's always got something for us. So onward to Leviticus! I use the She Reads Truth Bible, in the CSB Version, and I really love how as each Chapter of the Bible begins it gives you history and info on who wrote it, sometimes there are maps, this one has a layout of the Tabernacle which I found super helpful because I am terrible at visualizing things in my head.  Leviticus is about a Perfect, Holy God, who wants to be close to his imperfect people. So the laws and the ways to do things are about how to bring his people closer to him.  Some interesting points, The Term Tent of Meeting also refers to the Tabernacle. Sometime...