January Goals Update

One month already into twenty fourteen, wow! In a previous post I mentioned that to help me actually accomplish my new years goals I would first, choose broad ones and narrow them down to monthly things to help reach that end goal and second, blog about it. So here's a months recap for you.

Read the Bible 1x- I am on track so far in my chronological Bible reading plan!

Get Fit- I exercised about 12 times this past month:\ Give or take I guess its better than nothing. I have also been drinking water a lot more!

Cultivate my Relationships- I did an Instagram/Youtube/Pinterest fast this past month as well. I really enjoyed that! 

-The Lord has really ministered me this past month on having personal convictions and hearing His voice. 

Improve my Work Ethic- I need to work on this one...

Work on my Talents- In the learn a new instrument department, I have picked up guitar (since I don't have one yet this will be a slow process.) 

-I started this new project where I will film one second of my day for the whole year and make a life movie. So far I've enjoyed it and can't wait to see the finished product!

So, I think I had a pretty productive month. How are you doing with your 2014 resolutions? Have you forgotten about them already?

Book Review- Shadowed By Grace

 As an avid WW|| reader I will just about read any book written in that era. I love learning about the war and reading different points of view, and this book was no exception. In Shadowed by Grace you see a new angle to World War || history mainly through art.  Lieutenant Scott's job was to track and protect priceless art masterpieces all throughout Europe. We witness a battle fought not with bombs and bullets but a battle to persevere cultures and history!

Cara Putman definitely ranks high in the originality department. Her writing style was very serene and simple drawing me instantly in to the WW|| "feel." I enjoyed her Characters Rachel and Scott, but would have loved to see them developed more. They seemed a bit surfaced and not super relatable, but still likable. The plot was very centered on Rachel finding her unknown father and through each place visited and adventures encountered that was the reoccurring theme, so the ending felt so quick and lacking.

Overall I think it was a well written remarkable historical side to WW||. I really enjoyed the photographic and artistic side to the story. There is a lot of mystery, action, and sweet romance.

I received this book for free from Litfuse in exchange for this independent and unbiased review. 

Top Ten Worlds I'd Never Want To Live In

This week's Top Ten Tuesday revolves around worlds that we would NEVER want to live in, or characters you'd never want to trade places with. With all the dystopian and post-apocalyptic stuff out there right now, it's not too hard to pick a few.

1. I would definitely not want to live in Jill Williamson's Safe Lands. People are dying of a plague, where the government controls and knows everything, there is forced surrogacy and to top it all off its a place  where pleasure is everything! 

2. Know I would REALLY REALLY not want to be in Spokie. The Swipe Series is a post-apocalyptic book so first of all I would have missed the rapture (enough said there), I would be forced to get the mark of the beast or die, and find out that the world you live in and those around you are not what you knew and trusted them to be.

3. To put it in that perspective I wouldn't want to be in Beacon, or the A.U. or E.U. any where DOME is in control. 

4. The State is an underground world, ruled by scientists, that prohibit emotions and everyone is basically brainwashed to do what they are told... or else. (Anomaly)

5. The Jason Farm!!!! One word CLONES!!! 

6. I would hate to live in the town (forgot the name) where the Inner Society rules. These perfect looking, over-achiever, super rich, teens are basically genetically mapped children who know feel entitled to everything and will do anything to make those from the outside leave! 

7. Its America or is it? Nothing works, cars, watches, water, credit cards. Is it a terrorist attack, or is the world ending, we don't know. Everyone is desperate and especially the Killer who stalks the Branning family's neighborhood. 

8. Michael Hosea!!! Redeeming Love is a retelling of the Biblical story Hosea and Gomer, so that man goes through a lot of pain. I do not think I could survive emotionally all the things he went through, I mean WOW. 

9. Anything Holocaust related. I love reading WW2 novels admiring the characters bravery, but I do not think I could survive such awful cruelties. 

10. The Titanic is grand and all, but anytime I think of the painful and slow deaths those people faced... I wouldn't trade places for anything!!!