Mudhouse Sabbath by Lauren Winner

So I've started checking books out from the library, which I might say I haven't done since high school when I had to do research projects and I would check books out so I could work on the papers at home. Todd & I are trying to not keep spending mucho dinero on books like we have our whole marriage (partly due to grad school).

Mudhouse Sabbath is my first book and I truly couldn't put this book down, I read it in 3 days which is lighting fast speed for me. Anyways, I found it really interesting because Lauren grew up Jewish and in college became a Christian, but now feels like she misses some Jewish ways--the routines that draw the sacred into the everyday. I found that many of these traditions I didn't know very much about. After reading about them, I found myself really wanting to integrate more of these practices into my own life like--sabbath (resting), certain prayers to say, fasting, candle lighting, putting a mezuzah which is the Shema (Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one) on your doorpost, and being better at mourning--they have really good traditions around grieving. The list goes on and if you are so interested, you should just read the book it's only 143 pages . . . now I'm off to try and request her last book that I haven't read-- Girl Meets God.