The Next Right Thing by Emily Freeman

"Let's ... consider what it means for us to do the next right thing now. Not the next big thing. Not the next impressive thing. Just the next right thing in front of us. So what *IS* our next right thing?" (Emphasis mine)

This week's proving to be a bit of a toughie, one way and another, so this quote from Emily Freeman's book The Next Right Thing, has been a balm to a slightly battered soul. Just thinking of the next thing, instead of the loads of other things on my radar presently, helps break that 'rabbit in the headlights' feeling, and enables me to step forward.

I'm a mere 15 pages into this book, reading it around lots of others which I need to read for work purposes, and it's already touched me. I'm looking forward to getting further in.

The 49th Mystic by Ted Dekker

A brilliantly told story spanning two worlds.

I was intrigued by the blurb for this book – about a blind girl who lives in two worlds.  Or rather, in two time periods.  When she sleeps in her home town of Eden, Utah, she is awake in a future world, and vice versa.  

Motherless Rachelle is close to her father, David, and an independent young lady. Although blind, she ‘sees’ using sonar clicks, and navigates through her world confidently. When strange things happen during a medical procedure to restore her sight, Rachelle soon finds that it’s just the beginning of a series of dramatic events.  While she sleeps in Eden, she wakens in another place and time.  A place which seems dangerous yet familiar and where she must trust people she barely knows.  At first it’s a relief to wake up back in Eden, but life there is about to change forever, and everything she knew and thought to be true will be turned upside down.  

As ‘the 49^thMystic’, long prophesied, she must find five ancient seals before it is too late. They might be in either world. And danger follows her in both.

If you’ve ever woken up from a dream so vivid that for a few moments you struggle to work out what is real, then you will completely connect with Rachelle!  Although in her case there really ARE two worlds in which she is living separate but strangely connected lives.

I was hesitant about starting this book, but I needn’t have been.  Captivated from the very beginning, this was a book I was desperate to keep reading!

Settle into your comfiest reading chair with a cup of something nice and your favourite snack, take the phone off the hook (or switch off your smartphone) and put up a ‘do not disturb’ sign.  Once you’ve started this book you won’t want to stop!