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I love to read.\u00a0 I love to read more than I like to sleep.\u00a0 I love to read more than I like to eat.\u00a0 In 2018, I had the privilege of reading 51 books and writing reviews for them that I\u2019ve posted at the end of this blog.\u00a0 I realize that reading is a HUGE privilege and it\u2019s not anything that I take for granted.\u00a0 \u00a0My mom is to thank for instilling a love of reading in all three of her kids from a very early age.\u00a0 I\u2019ve written on this blog a number of times how I feel about reading and the way that reading shapes the influence that you have.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard it said that you can tell a lot about a person by the people that they hang out with and the books that they read.\u00a0 Words matter.<\/p>\n

Here are some links to the books I’ve intentionally documented the last several years…<\/p>\n

Books from 2010<\/a>\u00a041 books
\nBooks from 2011<\/a>\u00a063 books
\nBooks from 2012<\/a>\u00a078 books
\nBooks from 2013<\/a>\u00a043 books
\nBooks from 2014<\/a>\u00a032 books
\nBooks from 2015<\/a>\u00a041 books
\nBooks from 2016<\/a>\u00a054 books
\nBooks from 2017<\/a> 40 books<\/p>\n

The reading that has impacted me the most this year…BY FAR…is the Bible.\u00a0 I was so glad to find the M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan when I was deciding how to study the Bible in 2018.\u00a0 I had the privilege of sharing with our Upper School students at school about this choice back in January.\u00a0 One of the main parts of this process was purchasing a new Bible in order to get a fresh look at God’s word.\u00a0 Sometimes I tend to skim things that were already highlighted or already had notes in it simply because my eyes thought that I already knew those things.\u00a0 What a difference it made to bring a new highlighter and pen to fresh pages.\u00a0 This year the Lord granted me the grace to read familiar passages with new perspective and to learn so many new things about God through Scripture .\u00a0 I’m so grateful for this Bible reading journey and can’t wait to begin a new one tomorrow for 2019…more about that later. Here is some info about my Bible reading plan from this past year.<\/p>\n