Are you ever in the mood just to let our mind wander anywhere? You are not looking for a heavy read – but basically fluff. A no brainer that you can pick up read a few pages and get back to whenever… if ever.

Well, that is how this book found its way into my hands. Purchased for the plane ride to Honduras, I skimmed it and didn’t finish until I had returned home. At that point just finishing it to see if it had a point (which it didn’t) I did stumble across one gem in this book.

Towards the end of the book I learned about the Watch Night Celebration, which stems back to Abraham Lincoln’s reign before he freed the slaves. The Watch Night Celebration was what the slaves would do on New Year’s Eve… it was a time to be in deep prayer over the past year, and for the year that was upon them. They pray through the new year. I love that idea!

In the book, they have a similar celebration where they potluck together as a church, as family and friends, and on New Years eve they eat together, laugh together, and as midnight draws near, they pray through the new year, thanking God and praising Him for the past year and praying for the new one.

That right there, made the book for me.