What else can you come up with?!?

It‘s true though!! 📚🐉

When a friend of yours writes a book, you go buy it!!
Support the authors you know, Littens!!

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I might have a meeting that I am absolutely dreading first thing this morning, but my box showed up and I got to unpack it before that, so I‘m actually starting the day off with something that‘s happy and excites me!!
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Five new to me books from a new to me bookstore and new stickers for my laptop!!
I‘d call todays trip to the bookstore a success!! 📚

Which female authors have inspired you? Who do you love? Who have you learned from?

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”

~ Edward Newton~

The good news? My BOTM box showed up right on time today and SIX new books this month!!

The box looked opened/damaged when I retrieved it.
First time in 5 years of being a BOTM member that that has happened.

One more silver lining is that none of the books inside the box were actually damaged.

Ready to dive in!

Did I lose my health insurance this month?
Yes. Yes I did.
Did I console myself with a brand new box of books?
Also yes.
Don‘t judge me!
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Making a dent in my TBR list on the BOTM app!! With a blanket as blue as their boxes to boot!! We‘ve had a pretty tame winter season so far, but I‘m not writing off time to get cozy and snuggle up with these and others that I‘ve now made part of my collection!!

Understanding, accepting, and advocating for our many differences is what brings hope to humanity. Different does not equal deficient; limitations don‘t equal liability; and boundaries don‘t have to translate to burdens.

The ministry of presence is about showing up, giving support, sharing the burden, and, when necessary, staying silent.

Hope is the antibiotic for grief.

All we have is the here and now.

We are marvelous!

Why do I always fall for these? 😂

Wasn‘t crazy about the picks this month, but wanted to keep working my way through my BOTM TBR list, so now there‘s quite the TBR stack going on my night stand!!

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That awesome moment when you get book mail you didn‘t realize was on its way!!

The covers on these are completely gorgeous!!
Now I have the full set of three!!

Now to finish off 2023 or start 2024 with them?!?

Has anyone read all three?
Are they all separate stories or do they connect?

I‘ll be lucky if I make it halfway to the original goal I set for myself…I‘ve had more impressive reading years, that‘s for sure!!
Still going to try to squeeze in a couple more.

I did more buying new books and collecting them this year than I‘ve actually been reading, admittedly.

Anyone else have a slow reading year?

No? Just me? Okay.

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No caption needed. That‘s the post.

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I‘ve read a couple of Lysa‘s books this year and man am I so glad her books fell into my hands!
I didn‘t follow the format of this devotional book as it is intended at all, to read morning and night, but her words from this book were shown to me right when I needed to read them.
If you are a person of faith and have had a season or are currently in a season of wondering if you‘ll make it, let this book encourage you through that.

Sometimes the hard thing and the right thing are the same. 💯

Focusing on beauty isn‘t to deny the pain. It‘s just refusing to let it steal anything else from us.

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Harsh and unnecessary criticism says a lot more about that person‘s insecurities than our inadequacies.

God‘s love is not based on us; it‘s simply placed on us. And it‘s from this place we should live…loved.

These blue book boxes might be expensive right now, but when most of your books are boxed boxed up in a storage unit in another state, what‘s a woman to do?

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I wish this were a more well understood and accepted fact of life!!

The moment we criticize or condemn people for being human is the very moment we send them the message that God is not in control, that God, in fact, did not create them in his image, and that they are incapable of enjoying community with God or the rest of creation.

Ever read a quote so beautiful that you‘re not sure how to explain what‘s beautiful about it or why it‘s beautiful to you, but you just know and feel that it is?

Friendly reminder as we close out spooky season!!
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Shame pushes people further into darkness. But our own admission of how desperately we need grace and truth helps people walk toward the same kind of healing we have found.

Shame actually makes people feel more and more inclined never to expose their deepest pain to any kind of healing light.

We don‘t have to stay stuck here, friend. Forgiveness is the weapon. Our choices moving forward are the battlefield. Being released from that heavy feeling is the reward. Regaining the possibility of trust and closeness is the sweet victory. And walking confidently with the Lord from hurt to healing is the freedom that awaits.

Redemption can still be your story even if it doesn‘t look the way you thought it would. God is not done, and none of this will be wasted.

Healing is both a choice and a process. When we want to heal, we must allow ourselves time to walk through the necessary process.

Slow moments where we acknowledge the pain we are feeling helps point us in the direction of healing. We must feel the pain to deal with the pain and eventually heal the pain.

Treat emotional and brain pain the same as you would physical pain. Pay attention.

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You know positive life changes are happening when you can start buying blue book boxes again! 📚💙

Let us all hope that I can narrow it down to one a month with my credit and then use the 4 add ons to work my way through my BOTM TBR list!!

Boxes are about to be a bit more expensive for a while!!

Even a wounded world. 💯

Yes, it‘s uncomfortable to be confronted with an aspect of ourselves that we don‘t like, but we can‘t change what we refuse to see.

Not naming the groups that face barriers only serves those who already have access; the assumption is that the access enjoyed by the controlling group is universal.

I‘ve needed this reminder over the first 10 months of 2023!!!

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