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Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly

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4.0

Very, VERY highly recommended for anyone wanting to learn to cook. Really excellent book!
Spirit of the Wood by Kristen Britain

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5.0

Everything you want from a GR novella. We get some crucial answers to questions we've always had about Mapstone in a well written, excellently paced story. We are quickly drawn in, but also get the story's completion in the epilogue that places it clearly in the series timeline. This is a fitting celebration of the series' 25th anniversary, and a beautiful holdover to the conclusion of the series.
Every Season Sacred: Reflections, Prayers, and Invitations to Nourish Your Soul and Nurture Your Family throughout the Year by Kayla Craig

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5.0

"May Jesus be in the pain. May Jesus be in the joy. May Jesus be in every season, every story of our lives."

This is a book you keep forever. The pages will eventually be worn soft from use as you return to it again and again for encouragement and to be centered on the Lord. Keep it close.

Craig encourages us to be active peacemakers, and to teach our children this too. "The most important thing about you is you are a beloved child of God," she reminds hers regularly.

The format of this book is great: a reflection followed by a breath prayer, family discussion questions, and short prayers with versions for younger and older kids. She weaves additional riches throughout—music suggestions, traditional prayers of the church, and historical church practices like Examen and Lectio Divina. The appendices include daily prayers for morning, midday, evening and bedtime; and family prayer prompts.

There are wonderful reminders herein on how to hear the breath of God even in the wild moments of family life. She covers hospitality, safety, control, overwhelm, special needs and disability, sweet cozy world-changing Advent, gentle contemplative fasting in Lent, interruptions, neighborliness, freedom in Christ, memory, and more.

Highly recommended and may we all be encouraged to remember the sacred in every season of the year and of our lives.

{I received an early electronic copy to review.}