The Saturday Six

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I really really {really} love Shauna Niequist's writing. Planning to tell you more next week about how her book Bread and Wine inspired one of my scrapbook projects. Anyway. She just turned 37 {which makes me feel like she should want to be my friend since we're practically the same age} {as if that is a friendship requirement} and she wrote this blog post which I loved.

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Speaking of blog posts. If you missed this post of Lynne's on the Mid-Morning blog, you really need to read it. I love her love story. More than her love story, I love her marriage redemption story. And I adore, adore, adore, how she recognizes the gift her marriage is and she celebrates it every. single. day.

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Blogger Mandy finally had her baby - and he weighed TEN POUNDS. I hurt just reading it. I am always intrigued by blogging birth stories - mostly because I used to be obsessed with the TV show "A Baby Story" - and I've been to 4 childbirths. But her birth story takes the cake. Read it here - part 1 and part 2.

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My mother-in-law gave us this little sign for our kitchen. It needs no further explanation. :)

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I just finished reading this book by Anne Graham Lotz. I adore her writing. She knows Scripture so well and her writing always moves me. This one is painfully vulnerable from her perspective, but if you've ever been hurt by people who claim to love Jesus {and actually probably really do love Jesus!} check out her insights on being wounded by God's people. It both convicted and comforted me.  

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In light of the post I wrote yesterday...I found this post by Holley Gerth to be another reminder of how God's plans for each person are so different. And how we really do not live a formula - even when we want to.