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Daring to Hope by Katie Davis Majors

Goodness. It has been an incredibly long time since I last wrote on this little book blog of mine. Three years and two months to be exact! I can't exactly explain what has kept me from this space, but over the last few weeks I have felt the gentle tugging on my heart to get back here. And so here I am.

While I stopped writing for a few years, I certainly did not stop reading. In fact, I have read more in the last two years than I had in a long time. Mostly because some pretty significant life changes (i.e. new jobs and moves) made it possible for me to have more time to read than ever before.

Also, somehow over the last year, I found my way into the world of book launch teams. It has been so much fun getting to read books before they are released, getting to know author's via social media and livestream conversations, and learn about the world of book publishing. Since July of 2016, I have been or am currently on the launch team for 11 books! All of them have been in the genre of Christian Living/Spirituality and most were/are ones that I would normally pick up off the shelf anyway. My husband really loves the fact that by being on these teams, our budget is a little less tight because I'm not spending so much money on books every month (whoops. I can't help it. Books are my love language).

Anyway, one of the teams I am currently on is for Katie Davis Majors' new book Daring to Hope - Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful. Katie is the author of the New York Times best-seller Kisses from Katie, her story of moving to Uganda, becoming mama to 14 beautiful young women through fostering and adoption, and starting Amazima Ministries. Her newest book, Daring to Hope, comes out October 3 and is in one word... INCREDIBLE.

Friends, I normally read pretty fast (as in a 200-300 page book in a day or two max). But it took me almost a week and a half to read this one because I simply wanted to sit with each chapter a little longer than usual. I wanted to soak in her stories, her teaching, her heart for Jesus and so that's what I did.

She shared stories of her life in Uganda and the lessons she learned while holding onto hope in the really hard times of loving people through sickness, surgeries, family crises and so much more. She wrote about her daily habits of trying to find things to be thankful for even when she desperately wanted to curl up and cry. And she talked about the ways God continued to show her the love He has for her through the people He introduced her to, the husband He sent her way and the family He created for her.

I could talk about this book for days on end, but somehow I don't think that would do the book or Katie full justice. So, I am going to tell you simply to go pre-order it at www.DaringtoHope.com and have it delivered to your door the day it releases (October 3). Also, if you pre-order it, you can get some really amazing free stuff (i.e. access to the first chapter, a beautiful bracelet handmade by the women of Amazima Ministries in Uganda, an advanced reader's copy, etc).

This is a book that I promise you will not regret ordering and reading slowly, while savoring and soaking in each story, chapter and lesson.


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