Novemberrrrrr

And so summer gives way to fall, and fall lose its self to winter.

October went by like a flash for me *looks at the calendar wondering and doesn't understand how the month went by so fast*  

So here's a short recap of the last 31 days  and the books I've read this month! 

October Recap:

I don't know about every one else but I've been sooooo overwhelmed with school! This is my last year of highschool * YAY for 12th grade* and it is honestly the most challenging year so far. (Probably because I have a millon other things that I'm trying to do at the same time) But I am enjoying it. I have quite a few subjects that I love.

    Also October was my birthday * cue me blowing out 18 candles*  gahhh I can hardly belive that I am 18 already. Like how did life go by so fast. Haha 

It really was a great month. I got to hang out with a lot of my cousins, which is REALLY awesome, cause I have cool cousins 😁😁 anddddd i just love October in general because come on guys CHIA LATTES & FALL COLORED LEAVES *heart eyes*

 Anyway you don't want to hear about me so let's go ahead and skip to the fun part...

B O O K S 

 Ahhh yess my obsession... 

Is it bad that I can't remember all the titles of the books I've read this month?!?!?!?

 Actually  it's probably a good thing..haha cause this post might get reallllllyyyyyy longgggggg  and rambley *wonders to self if rambley is a word or not* 

So I narrowed it down to 4 books.

enjoy 

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BIOGRAPHIES

Sundar Singh

By  Janet & Geoff Benge

(Exerp from book)

As Sundar preached the gospel to the crowd, the monastery guard marched forward and arrested him. Sundar was dragged to the edge of town and hurled to the bottom of an abandoned well. The air was putrid. Desperation and loneliness soon washed over him. Left to die, Sundar leaned against the side of the well and began to pray. 

Searching since boyhood for the way to God, Sundar Singh found truth in Jesus Christ. At sixteen, the former Sikh became a Christian sadhu, or holy man, and at great risk devoted his life to Christ. With bare feet and few possessions, Sundar crossed the precarious Himalayas between India and Tibet many times, sharing the gospel with Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs -- even thieves. 

As he traveled, Sundar constantly read the Bible, prayed, and meditated, confident that God was always with him, even in the face of death. Preaching in Asia, Europe, and as far away as America, this Indian saint impacted thousands with his quiet yet bold words and actions.


Where to begin???? This book is amazing. I will repeat that again. THIS BOOK IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!
Pleas read it.
It will convict you.
Inspire you.
Grip you.
Fill you with an Awe for the God we serve.

I really don't have anymore words to say except that you are missing out on something quite life changing if you don't read this book.
To purchase this life changing bok
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FICTION

Counted with the stars
By Connilyn Cossette

Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all. 

To save her older brother and escape the bonds of slavery, Kiya flees with the Hebrews during the Great Exodus. She finds herself utterly dependent on a fearsome God she's only just beginning to learn about, and in love with a man who despises her people. With everything she's ever known swept away, will Kiya turn back toward Egypt or surrender her life and her future to Yahweh?

This was defiantly time well spent. 

The plot and dialog were stellar 👌

While not a deep and thought provoking  book, it was quite enjoyable and fun to read 😁😁 

Buy a copy of this book here


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Gods and Kings 
By Lynn Austin 

Gods and Kings is the story of King Hezekiah, heir to the throne of King David. When his evil father plots to sacrifice him, Hezekiah’s mother, Abijah, searches frantically for a way to save him. But only two men can help her, and neither of them seems trustworthy. In a time and place engulfed by violence, treachery, and infidelity to Yahweh, Abijah and her son must discover the one true Source of strength if they are to save themselves and their country. Book 1 of Chronicles of the Kings.

These books hold your interest, gather your imagination to the forefront and then brings you to reading the actual story in the Bible.
I am so impressed with the accuracy in her writing, truly a talent. She has brought these stories to us through her thought s and ideas but I feel she was really inspired in her writing.
I am a fan from the very beginning. Having read some of her other books, I find the Gods and Kings to be one best yet and there are so many more to go.
In my humble opinion, if you like good clean books to read with intrigue, love, hate, terror, sweetness and reality, get her books. You will not be sorry. I read them at night when all is quiet and I can really get into the story, then next thing I know it is well past midnight. So very glad I got this series and this is one that I will read and re-read again.
Love the story and the talent of this lovely author, Lynn Austin.  
     (Also I just want rant for a few minuets about what a FANTASTIC author Lynn Austin is, I've read 10 of her books and loved every single one of them ❤ and yeah she's one of my favorite authors)
Purchase Gods and Kings
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MYSTERY


Deception
By Randy Alcorn

“Messin’ with me’s like wearin’ cheese underwear down rat alley.”
-Ollie ChandlerHomicide detective Ollie Chandler has seen it all. Done more than he cares to admit. But when he’s called to investigate the murder of a Portland State University professor, he finds himself going places he’s never gone before. 

Places he never wanted to go.
Because all the evidence is pointing to one horrific conclusion: The murderer is someone in his own department. That’s not the worst of it, though. Ollie has nagging doubts…about himself. Where was he during the time of the murder? 

Joined by journalist Clarence Abernathy and their friend Jake Woods, Ollie pushes the investigation forward. Soon all three are drawn deep into corruption and political tensions that threaten to destroy them–and anyone who tries to help. But they’re in too deep to quit. They’ve got no choice. They have to follow the evidence to the truth… 

No matter how ugly–or dangerous–it gets.
A gripping story of murder and spiritual struggle, Deception proves, as never before, the truth of Ollie’s first law: “Things are often not what they appear.” 



So I'm not a huge mystery book fan, but my stars!!!

First off, if you haven't read Randy Alcorn's other two books Deadline and Dominion, you just need to go and buy them right now. Go ahead, I'll wait.....I'm serious. His books are so good that they will make every other book you read seem bad, honestly. Deception's main character is Detective Ollie Chandler. He was a minor major character in the above mentioned books, but we get to know him so much better in the pages of this book. Ollie is a son of a gun, no frills, let's fry the bad guys, Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris worshipping kinda guy. Alcorn makes Chandler instantly likeable, and molds his character like someone out of a 30's detective novel. Clarence Abernathy (main character of Dominion) and Jake Woods (main character of Deadline) both make appearances in Deception. They added some very deep, soul-searching dialog to match our loveable homicide detective's cynical and dark thoughts on life. Alcorn does not handle the problem of evil and living in a broken world with kid's gloves in this novel. Ollie is on the forefront of a lot of bad stuff, thus his very cynical look on life and God. He just can't believe there's a God while so much evil goes unchecked. What ensues through the novel is Ollie's journey through a very complicated murder, always delving for new clues and always not sure who he can trust. Alcorn is a master wordsmith, and his mastering of the 1930's detective novels is suberb. This book is a must have for mystery lovers and people who just love a good book. 

Click here to buy Dominion.. You won't regret it!!

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Announcement!!!!

So the other day I was trying to come up with a fun monthly post on my blog the first one being that I could write a short story      ( but I quickly threw that idea out the proverbial window...   because while I LOVE writting, I have a hard time finishing the stories I come up with. I seriously have 3 notebooks filled with stories that don't have endings. Sad but true )   ANYWAY next idea.. hmmm what should I do???? *gasps in excitement, that's it !!! ferb I know what we're going to do today*
Yeah I know I get Distracted easily ... OK so here is what I'm going to do ...
Every 2nd Friday of the month I'm going to pick and author and write a blog post about Him/Her .
Or pick out several books from A particular genera  In time
|Medival | Civil war| Revolutionary War| take your pick.
Do how does that sound??
Are you excited about it???
I know I am!!

If you have a specific author or time period that you would like me to write about leave your suggestions in a comment below!!! 

Thanks for reading,
May the peace of God be with you all!
-Janelle

//World War Recommendations//

So I may sort of have an addiction. *distant sigh* I love, no let me rephrase, I adore World War FICTION or really any types of World War  books.
But alas for the past while and I havent been finding any of those books *sobbing*
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When i was younger I would dream what my life would have been like had I been born 100 years ago. And as I grew older I began to realize what the people of the 20th century went through. The intense pain that the mothers, daughters and, wives went through as they Watched their loved ones go and defend their country, not knowing if they would ever see them again. The courage of the soldiers as they faced the enemy and, almost certain death. 
What I came to realize and understand was that though some may say that the 20th century would have been a terrible time to live in, I one hundred percent disagree.
 I think of Winston Churchill who fearlessly lead England during the horrible Bombing of London and declared that England would NEVER give in, or the Brave Doctors and Nurses on the battle field rescuing the wounded.
Soldiers like Alvin York who along with 17 other Americans single-handedly captured 132 German soldiers, What courage! what bravery!
 To be Charles Lindbergh and have made the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic ocean.
I could go on and on and on.... It would have been an honor nay a privileged for me to have lived at the same time as those brave Men and Women who gave everything for their King and Country.

  |So if you have World War 2 or World War1 books/series that you love, I would be so very happy if yall would share some of them with me|😁😁

//Here are a list of books that I have already read in this particular genera.//

●Pear Harbor. Gahh so amazing. I literally cried my eyes out

●Daughters of Fortune series by, Judeth  Pella

●Rila of Inglside, by Lm.Montgumery

● True stories from D Day

And for some reason my mind  just went blank on all the other world War books that I have read... So yeah *awkward pause*  maybe that's all the World War books that I've read????
I'm not even sure at this point.
 ANYWAY moving on. As you now can see I am in Desperate need of some recommendations 😁😁
So I look forward to seeing what  references y'all have For me!
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Until next time,
Janelle

Last minute camping trip /learning patience

So you might be wondering what camping and patience have in comon. Well as you are soon to find out in my case they actually go hand in hand. 
But as I have come to realize life certainly isn't wonderful and fantastic ALL of the time, although it does have its moments. But there are also times if disappointment and sadness. Life is hard but in the end I wouldn't want to have it any other way. 
But I'm getting ahead of myself. 
Let me take you back to the beginning....
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As I'm sure you can all imagine our joy and delight when out of the blue my uncle contacts my dad and asks if we want to go on a quick weekend camping trip with them. What could be more fun than getting to spend time with some of our favorite cousins!  Of course by this time all of us kids are exuberantly voicing our opinions (and yes they were all in favor of going camping) 
And since we have just become the proud new owners of a new RV *happy dance*  we thought why not, an adventure would be quite a grand way to  einjoy the last few days of sunny warm weather (aka 60 degrees) to finish off the autumn. Unbeknownst to us at the time we were in for an adventure but not the one we expected. Not even close. *dramatic music*
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6:00 A.M.  Sunday morning
We all excitedly pile into  the RV ready for the 5 hour drive into the fall colored mountains of of Pennsylvania. Soon we are all asleep (or at least I was) let me tell you something. Sleep and I love eachother. We are in a committed relationship. Can i get an amen?!?! *thinks longingly of her warm soft bed at home which is currently many miles away *
 Okay back to the road trip...... 3 1/2 hours later and one stop at a winery to pick up fresh grape juice * yum yum*  we are on the last leg of the journey ........ or so we thought. I was conveniently sprawled across bed reading quite an interesting book which I shall have to introduce to you all on a later date, when suddenly I hear the sound of  tires rolling across the rumble strips. That was odd I thought, since we usuallydon't make random stops  besideside the road . unconcerned I went back to my reading only to hear my dad saying the the engine had suddenly turned off and wewouldnt turn on. Thankfully he was able to get to the side of the interstate without any accidents, (Thank God)  Hurriedly I made my way to the front of the RV to see what was going on..... to make a long story short after waiting for 6 hours stranded on the side of the highway road side assistance finally towed our brand new RV to the mechanics *distant sobing* we following in a borrowed  SUV that one of  my mom's relatives we able to bring to us, made our way to where they were hauling our large house on weels You can only imagine the disappointment that we were all going through at that moment, getting to spend a few days with some of our favorite cousins is something that we always look forward to. This is where the 'patient' part of the post comes in to play. I'm sure we are all familer with the  phrase all things work together for good, right. And I started thinkinng about the will of God. 

What is Gods will for me?
What does He call me to do?

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; But above all these things put on [love], which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Colossians 3:12

God wants us to live a life of joy and happiness,  but I think we often mistake that for a life of leasure so when something goes wrong we turn to the blam toward  our Father. But that's where we are wrong. Where in the bible does God promise that our exsistance wpuld be an easy one??
Never! That's where, 1st Peter 1:6-7 says
 though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
NKJV

God lets us go through trials to test our faith,  that way we become refined, drawn Nearer to the one that saved our souls, filled with his power and love.
Imagine if the Great Missionaries like Hudson Taylor or, Amy Carmichael, or even George Muler had never went  through hard times where all they had to cling to was God.
 would their faith had suffered from that, never crying out to him when all you have is stripped away from you ??
Of course it would have.
When we don't have that utter and desperate need for a higher Power our very exsistances and reliance on God decreases.
Where as when we fall down and sorrow overtakes us, we call out to God for help.  And through that we are drawn closer to Jesus and our faith becomes all the more precious because we have felt the power of God in the Midst  of it.
And what it all comes down to is this.

Trust.

Just one word. Trust. Trust God that he knows best, without trust what is our faith? How can we have faith if we can not trust the one we are presumably relying on.
 So today open yourself up to God. He has a wonderful purpose for you!!  If we would only let Him in.  The road may not always be easy or smooth, but he promises that He will never leave or forsake us.
So let's throw caution, fear, whatever is holding you back to the wind. Rest in the perfect will of the one who gave up his very life to save us.

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Conclusion

" In the end we ended up spending the night in our RV and going to the campground the next day, so it all worked out, maybe not the way we expected or even wanted but at least now we have a new story to tell...... right?!?!? (Although I'm not sure that I will enjoy this one as much)

[Cousins ]

Literally the cutest little human 

beingin the world🌍

Also this coffee mug is 👌

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I hope that you've enjoyed my ramble 😉 

Untill next time.

[Janelle]