just started...

One of my best friends, Nicole, has been telling about this book for months. "It's SO good! I'll let you borrow it." ...was also something she's been telling me for months! Haha! So for my birthday, she handed me a brand new copy and said, "Yaaa, pretty much I'm never going to part with my copy...so here ya go." :D

I was finally going to read her recommendation! And I was excited to be able to participate in her enthusiasm over the book's inspiration.

Then I saw the Author.

I immediately referenced a silly stigma tied to the author's name... "Cheesy Teenage Mormon Quick Reads." I know, I am such a brat. It's just that, at the time'n'age in one's life that they would be reading Bytheway's infamous novels ... mmm ...well, let's just say, I wasn't pickin' up, what he was puttin' down. Not at all. My progressive strides had nothing of a spiritual concern. #iwassuchapleasentteenager. #sorrydad.

Irritated by my own ignorance, I put the thought behind me and looked forward to the next quiet moment when I could open the book and begin.

Well I began it last week and I am really really enjoying it. I did, however, begin to wonder if I would be "getting more out of it" if I were actually in the midst of tragedy... But then got to thinking that: just as we have been counseled to build our temporal storage (ie food storage) we should be cultivating our spiritual-food storage as well.

So I am reading, pondering, internalizing and storing.
Thank You Nicole.