Reading Challenge 2019: My Reading Plan to Deepen My Faith this Year

You may pick up a new book seeking knowledge on a subject that fascinates you. Or you may feel like exploring an alternative world created by a novelist. When your reading also exercises your faith, fires your imagination, stirs your soul, and expands your circle of compassion, it becomes a sacred activity.

SPIRITUALITY AND PRACTICE
Making Reading Sacred

I am choosing several reading challenges and book discussions to be a part of this year, to connect with others who love reading and share those books and thoughts with all of you here. Fingers crossed, I make it through the whole year in spite of health challenges, my homeschooling schedule and other life challenges.

But my deepest goal is to use what I read as part of a year-long goal to come back to & deepen my faith.

Here are just a few of the books I will be reading (okay, I have already started, and finished one of them, but you get the idea) ...

Faith Unraveled by Rachel Held Evans
The Book of Philippians in the New Testament (study book is optional)
Lenten Meditations, by William A. Barry
It'll Be Okay: Finding God When Doubt Hides the Truth by Sheryl Giesbrecht Turner
Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson, a Christian author
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving & Finding the Church, also bu Rachel Held Evans

I'd love it if you'd join me, so we can talk about the books here. But I hope to share the ideas, too, and you're invited to comment on those even of you haven't read the book.

My plan is to do one book post per month, but I have found so many books I'd like to read, there may be the occasional extra post.

"...it was only as I was exposed to this
new, vast realm of ideas and inspiration that I understood I had been
fed on crumbs of knowledge when there was a feast to be enjoyed."
Sally Clarkson, in Book Girl

I may also read some Jane Austen. Another challenge blog is featuring books by Jane Austen this year and there's another that suggests reading the book and then, watching the movie. I might do that, too, if I get around to it.

Are you doing any reading challenges this year?

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine