diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b9a1788..6cc05ca 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ dependencies {
 
 ## What's New
 
+* **0.7.1** Adding some parser exception safety and added slf4j dependency for logging errors
 * **0.7.0** Adding some null safety on some of the base functions
 * **0.6.9** Fixed some null pointer issues if content on base64encode was null and some exceptions on array traversal
 * **0.6.8** Fixed ! (not) operator and added base64encode, base64decode, textdecodebase64, textencodebase64
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 6006925..6c7e504 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ ext {
 
 
 group = 'com.bertramlabs.plugins'
-version = '0.7.0'
+version = '0.7.1'
 
 ext.isReleaseVersion = !version.endsWith("SNAPSHOT")
 sourceCompatibility = "1.8"
@@ -46,11 +46,14 @@ dependencies {
     api 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.14.1'
     api 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.14.1'
     api 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.14.1'
+    api "org.slf4j:slf4j-parent:1.7.26"
+    api "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.26"
     testImplementation platform("org.spockframework:spock-bom:2.3-groovy-4.0")
     testImplementation "org.spockframework:spock-core"
     testImplementation "org.spockframework:spock-junit4"  // you can remove this if your code does not rely on old JUnit 4 rules
     testImplementation "org.apache.groovy:groovy-all:4.0.4"
 
+
     // testImplementation "org.spockframework:spock-core:2.3-groovy-3.0"
 }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/bertramlabs/plugins/hcl4j/HCLParser.java b/src/main/java/com/bertramlabs/plugins/hcl4j/HCLParser.java
index c9040b0..7513a41 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/bertramlabs/plugins/hcl4j/HCLParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/bertramlabs/plugins/hcl4j/HCLParser.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 import java.io.*;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.*;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /**
  * Parser for the Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL). This is the primary endpoint and converts the HCL syntax into a {@link Map}.
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@
  * @author David Estes
  */
 public class HCLParser {
-
+	static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HCLParser.class);
 	//Time to parse the AST Tree into a Map
 	protected Map<String,Object> result = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 	protected Map<String,Object> variables = new LinkedHashMap<>();
@@ -296,33 +298,28 @@ public Map<String,Object> parse(Reader reader) throws HCLParserException, IOExce
 	public Map<String,Object> parse(Reader reader, Boolean ignoreParserExceptions) throws HCLParserException, IOException {
 		HCLLexer lexer = new HCLLexer(reader);
 		ArrayList<Symbol> rootBlocks;
-
-		if(ignoreParserExceptions) {
-			try {
-				lexer.yylex();	
-			} catch(Exception ex) {
-				//TODO: Log the exception
-			}
-		} else {
-			lexer.yylex();
-		}
-		
-
-		rootBlocks = lexer.elementStack;
+		try {
+			lexer.yylex();	
+			rootBlocks = lexer.elementStack;
 
 
-		result = new LinkedHashMap<>();
-		Map<String,Object> mapPosition = result;
+			result = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+			Map<String,Object> mapPosition = result;
 
-		for(Symbol currentElement : rootBlocks) {
-			processSymbolPass1(currentElement,mapPosition);
-		}
+			for(Symbol currentElement : rootBlocks) {
+				processSymbolPass1(currentElement,mapPosition);
+			}
 
-		//pass2
-		for(String key : result.keySet()) {
+			//pass2
+			for(String key : result.keySet()) {
 				processSymbolPass2(result.get(key),result);
+			}
+		} catch(Exception ex) {
+			log.error("Error Parsing HCL...{}",ex.getMessage(),ex);
+			if(ignoreParserExceptions != true) { //its nullable so thats why we look at inverse
+				throw new RuntimeException(ex);
+			}
 		}
-//		System.out.println(result);
 		return result;
 	}