At the Feet of Jesus

How do you start your mornings?  If the weather is nice, I will sit on my front porch swing and start mine with some nice, quiet time reading the Bible- and a devotional is a great help.  I also used to drink instant cappuccino every day, but this pregnancy started out with a sharp disgust for the smell/taste/idea of sugar and now I have no desire for cappuccino. Chocolate is still safe, thankfully, and I suppose the caffeine wasn't good for me/us anyway.

This book review has been a long time coming.  This isn't a typical fiction book that I breeze through in a few days' time.  It is a daily devotional, so I wanted to make sure that I read enough of it to give a fair review. I wasn't going to skip ahead, either.  That is cheating and it would ruin it! :)

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I am reviewing At the Feet of Jesus by Joanna Weaver. I have never read any of her books, but this daily devotional seems to be a collection of snippets from her other books.  The daily readings are one page or less, so it is a nice length.  They are insightful and spiritually challenging (which is a good thing!) Instead of giving a Bible passage to look up in the beginning and then discussing it with a story or illustration like most devotionals I have used, one verse is quoted in the top margin and at the end the reader is referred to a short Bible passage.  There is variety in this section in that sometimes a reflection question is given or a challenge of some sort, and the length of the passage may vary, also.  Sometimes it is only one verse, which seems a bit short to me, but then again, if you really study, reflect, and meditate on a single verse it can be better than reading an entire chapter with little comprehension. Another positive aspect of this devotional is that it is tailored to a woman's heart, like having morning coffee with a best girlfriend (Well, except that I don't like coffee and now not even cappuccino  but you know what I mean!) I like that the author is not sugar-coating the truth, either- she is not afraid to "tell it like it is" - even if that may step on some toes or be difficult to hear.  Like I said, a best girlfriend would do this for you. Of course, it is only March, so I have a long way to go, but at this point I would recommend this devotional to any of my girlfriends, too.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. The opinions are my own, of course!