What Now? By Kaitlyn Odom Fielder: Book Review

 Rating 4.5/5

It has been a while since I last reviewed a book. Okay, let's be honest, it's been a while since I last picked up a book. I won't get into that here. When Ambassador International sent me books to review, I was in the middle of podcasting and things got to be too much with my poor health. Sadly, a few books got set aside and forgotten about. This was one of them. Now, with my writing again, I found these books. 

In What Now?, Kaitlyn opens her heart and soul for the world to see. It was honest and thoughtful. I don't normally find myself reading nonfiction books, but I am very happy that I had the opportunity to read this book. The opening line is quirky, but it works, setting the stage for the rest of what is to come. On every page you can feel the author's emotions, her grief, sorrow, and most importantly, her hope. She doesn't hide anything. I loved knowing the questions that she had about life, about her experiences, and what God had in store for her. Through reading this, I was brought back to moments of my own trauma that I had growing up. Though it was not losing someone in the way that she lost her family, but I found myself relating to her emotions and questions.

An overall theme that carries throughout, is that through faith, God brings healing. Just because we experience traumatic events, or bad things happen, it does not mean that God does not love us. God loves us very much, even through the bad, God will bring about good. I loved seeing the journey that Kaitlyn took to learnt to cope and deal with what had happened to her. She breaks it down into a step by step process. 

At some points it did feel slightly disjointed, but part of that is simply her mind processing what she went through and how it has led her to where she is now. I also found at some points my interest waned slightly, but even in those parts, I am glad that she included them. These moments have meant something to her, and readers will connect to various experiences and questions that she was faced with.

Overall, I enjoyed the book. I would certainly recommend this to anyone who has been faced with trauma. Let's face it, that's most of us. 

https://www.abeautifulbelonging.com/book/

Day At Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan

Before I begin with the pictures, I wanted to state something that we encountered while driving home. Cruise Control does not mean your vehicle drives for you. We were driving home on the highway today, and the red mustang in front of us was swerving all over the road between two lanes. When it went to pass a semi, it nearly went off the road. So the first opportunity I got, I flew past that vehicle. The lady driving it was TEXTING! So your communication with whomever you were texting is so important as to endanger my wife and child? Now I am sure you driving texters are rolling your eyes right now as you read this, and thinking, "Nothing bad will happen to me as a result of this, other people sure, but not me!" This is just what a young girl who was friends with someone I know was thinking as she texted her friend. When she got into a car accident as a result of this and died as a result. Or many thousands of drunk idiots have thought over the years as they get into the vehicle to drive home, only to kill or seriously injure someone. It is the same thing. So please think about this as you get into a vehicle and text while driving. If you want to kill yourself, fine, do so in a manner that doesn't endanger anyone else's life. We may have to change the slogan "Please Drive Responsibly" to "Please Kill Yourself Responsibly".

On a brighter note...

We headed up to Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan today. It was a pleasant day spent with my family. I managed to snap some good pics, and have some cool altered pics too!

Love the above Canvas version of the photo below.

Thought the above Scratch Crayon version of the below photo was kind of cool.

The above Water Colour version of the below picture brings out some more details in the photo.

I like how the faded background in the above picture, brings out this Blue Bell.

The above Scratch Crayon version or the below photo is really cool!

Spent the day trying to chase down these stupid chatty squirrels, who wouldn't cooperate with me! The nerve! They must love being in photos about as much as me! However I stole a couple of nice pics. The silhouette photo above is interesting, and he-she posed so perfectly for the below photo, he-she even looked right at me. How kind! 

Hope you enjoy my pics! And remember Kill Yourself Responsibly! Don't Text and Drive...you might hurt my child!