The Saturday Six

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I don't know how many of you have been following Davey Blackburn's story, but I have been, and this post he added to his blog recently is just so powerful. Love the imagery.

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Anyone else just SO READY for the Olympics to begin? I AM!!! And I confess to watching this replay of the Kerri Strug vault from 1996 many many times over the last couple of weeks. I cry every time. {Like I don't know what's coming...}


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Did you guys see this tweet from Karen Kingsbury? From her college days when she was a contestant on the $25,000 Pyramid? {I LOVED THAT SHOW!!!}

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I love this idea by Rachel Wojo for reminding yourself to pray for the people you say you'll pray for...and for letting them know, too! 

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While my capsule wardrobe still isn't complete, a year after starting it, I'm learning to work with the things I have to mix and match outfits, and I was pretty excited when I saw this week that blogger Anne actually owns one of the VERY DRESSES I own. Not a similar dress, but the ACTUAL dress. {Now granted, it's just a plain black dress, so an exact match doesn't even really matter, but it was just exciting to see my EXACT DRESS on someone else. I clicked back to her original post about the dress and found some new ideas on what to do with it! Whether or not you own this exact dress, these are good ideas.

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This week, I finished reading the "ATF" trilogy written by Jennifer Sands. No, it's not fiction. {I love it that there's a non-fiction trilogy!} Jennifer Sands was the keynote speaker at the Women's Break Away conference in Chilton, Wisconsin, where I served as a breakout session speaker earlier this year. I purchased all three of her books and A Treasured Faith, the one I read this week, is the final book in the series.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Jennifer's faith grow throughout the series of books. If you didn't catch my review of the first two, I'll give you a quick recap. Jennifer and her husband, Jim, were happily married for six years when Jim died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The first book in the trilogy talks about Jennifer's fledgling faith in the year after losing Jim, and in the second book, you can see her faith start to blossom, after she made a true commitment to the Lord and began to serve Him.

In this book, Jennifer's maturity is marked and beautiful. Though she was battling breast cancer at the time she wrote the book, it's not the main focus of her writing. This book is filled with the many examples of places she found the treasures of Christ as she lived out her every day. She spoke honesty {and laced with Scripture} the places we all look for treasure, but we're looking in vain, because true treasure is found in Christ alone.

After struggling so heavily {and understandably!} with anger after losing Jim, Jennifer's peace and understanding are so evident in this book, and it's obvious she speaks truth when she says that knowing and loving God is the greatest possible treasure.

Scripture says that where your treasure is, your heart will be also, and Jennifer's life proves that. Where her treasures were once focused on Jim, scuba diving, and her work in the pharmacy, her treasures are now focused on Jesus, ministering for Him wherever she can, and learning all she can about the life He has for her.

It's a good faith booster of a book, but most of all, I just loved seeing the transformation within Jennifer throughout the series. God at work, captured on paper!