Read, learn, pray, cook, and share with New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist. Savor is a 365-day devotional that invites you to expand your perspective about Christ-centered living by incorporating prayer and recipes for gathering with family and friends over breakfasts, dinners, and late-night snacks. Shauna becomes a friend across the pages as she shares her heart with yours, keeps you company, and invites you into the abundant life God offers. Savor teaches us: To savor each day, whatever it holds: work and play, coffee and kids, meals and prayers, the good stuff, and the hard stuff - Life is all about relationships, and your daily relationship with God is worth savoring in every moment - Recipes from Shauna's kitchen to enjoy around a table with people you love Savor has a beautiful linen cover. Inside you'll find: 21 delicious recipes and a helpful recipe table of contents - 365 devotions—each devotional includes a short Bible passage, an insightful story from Shauna, and a thoughtful prompt to help you grow - A ribbon marker to help you keep your place This devotional makes a perfect gift for a friend looking to experience a more integrated faith— and anyone who loves trying out new recipes or enjoys hosting gatherings for loved ones. Look for additional inspirational books and audio products from Shauna: I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet - Present Over Perfect - Bread and Wine Shauna Niequist is the New York Times best-selling author of seven books, including I Guess I Haven’t Learned that Yet and Present Over Perfect . Shauna and her husband, Aaron, and their sons, Henry and William, live in New York City. Shauna is an avid reader and traveler, and a passionate gatherer of people, especially around the table. Savor By Shauna Niequist ZONDERVAN Copyright © 2015 Shauna Niequist All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-310-34497-1 CHAPTER 1 January 1 OUR STORIES Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst? —1 Corinthians 3:16 These are my stories, the stories of life as it reveals itself in my field of vision, and the cast of characters are my friends and family and neighbors. I'm telling these stories because they're the only ones I know and the only ones I have the right to tell, believing that in them you will find your own stories, with your own beautiful and strange characters and plot twists. I believe that these love letters to my own quotidian life will unmask the tiny glimmers of hope and redemption masquerading as normal life in your corner of the world. The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that's been playing since the beginning of time, if you bend all the way down and put your ear to the ground to hear it. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural. You are more than dust and bones. You are spirit and power and image of God. YOUR STORY is worth telling—it's part of God's story, and his Spirit dwells within you. Take a few minutes to thank God both for your story and for his Spirit in you. CHAPTER 2 January 2 START WHERE YOU ARE You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. —Psalm 23:5 My friend Laura's New Year's resolution is "start where you are." I love it. Whatever thing seems too intimidating, whatever new skill seems too far off to develop, whatever project has been hanging over your head forever: start where you are . Each of us has been created by a holy God with love, on purpose and for a purpose. But so many of us feel afraid or unprepared. This is the secret, though: No one is prepared enough. No one is perfectly ready. Let's choose together to take one step forward today, whatever that means—a phone call, an hour of writing, a day away to dream. Sometimes even just a half hour to brainstorm or plan gets us unstuck. No one lives out an exciting calling without just plunging forward at some point, full of fear and uncertainty. The world is full of people who can talk your ear off about all the reasons they can't possibly just begin that thing they're longing to begin. Let's not be those people. Let's start where we are. WHAT'S THE dream or vision or project you feel called to in this season of your life? What's one tangible way to start where you are? CHAPTER 3 January 3 BITTERSWEET Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble? —Job 2:10 The idea of bittersweet is changing the way I live, unraveling and reweaving the way I understand life. Bittersweet is the idea that in all things there is both something broken and something beautiful, that there is a sliver of lightness on even the darkest of nights, a shadow of hope in every heartbreak, and that rejoicing