Confession: I read cookbooks. I prefer cookbooks that have amazing photos and memoir-type stories. This book is venturing into that idea. It's storytelling, almost longer devotionals, with beautiful photos. It's not a study or discipleship, It's friendship in a book.

I can see leaving it on the coffee table, thumbing through it from time to time, as a reminder I am not walking this Christian faith alone.

Satisfied by Alyssa Joy Bethke was such a gift and treasure to read! I have been looking forward to her first solo book for years and years! Thank you to Netgalley and Worth Publishing for a digital copy to review & share about with the launch team. The recipes included are such a treat! Yum. And the photographs were lovely, beautiful, bright, added so much dimension - I cannot wait to see them in the physical copy of the book. I love in the pages she kept reminding the reader that ALL are holy moments - there are no setbacks or survival seasons. All can be done to the glory of the Lord, He is always waiting and available for us to come to Him so that we found our all SATISFIED IN HIM. Just as Alyssa says, I can look around and see God's hand in everything around me - situation, physical location, the mess, the daily monotony with kids and writing, all of it. He is there & we simply have to respond and be satisfied in Him, right where we are. I love this quote: "He is the healer, He is the rescuer, we simply have to cry out to him!" Yes please! Thank you for the gentle, encouraging, strong reminders to bring my all to Christ - no matter what. Thank you for the example of what true hospitality and friendships looks like, as well as walking through perhaps unwelcome seasons or a puzzle of life which is not what you ever expected or wanted. Because HE USES ALL THINGS FOR HIS GLORY! IT can be a wrestle to find hope, joy and contentment in life... Yet As Alyssa says, "the wrestle is the invitation, to come to Jesus, the living water who longs to refresh, fill and satisfy our weary souls." What beautiful encouragement throughout this book. Thank you for these gracious words.

I wish that this book was a little more focused on things we can do to make our lives happy without simply circling back to religion. I should have read the description of genre a little better before requesting!