The Saturday Six

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I loved The Babysitter's Club books when I was growing up...and I found this little gem on Facebook this week. Ann M. Martin, who wrote the books, said that the toddler Claudia is holding on the cover of this book is Kirsten Dunst in her first ever modeling job. {Obviously Kirsten is much younger than I am. How am I now in the stage of life where I'm that much older than famous people?}

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I read in the paper earlier this week about the death of actress Skye McCole Bartusiak. I read that she was the little girl in The Patriot, but I only saw that movie once, many years ago, so I didn't remember her. THEN the next day I saw that she was also the actress the played Missie Davis opposite Katherine Heigl and Dale Midkiff in Love Comes Softly. That's one of my favorite movies! So very sad to read of her death...only 21 years old!

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LOVED this blog post I stumbled upon this week by fiction writer Joanne Bischof. If you're in a season of waiting {for anything} - do give it a read. It's so comforting!

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I ADORE, ADORE, ADORE this idea that Katie Farrell blogged about. Katie is the blogger at Dashing Dish, which I love for recipes, but this was a blog post about a night she and some friends hosted for girls to help them realized how very much they're cherished by God. If I could drop everything and do this right now for some of my friends, I WOULD. This is great!

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My very first year of college, I had the privilege of having a class with Crystal Blake...and we became friends who lasted beyond that class. We kept in touch by email for years, and when I taught a women's Bible study at church, Crystal {who by that time, was a missionary in the Czech Republic} became our first international member. Crystal was diagnosed with cancer when she was 35 and she has been fighting bravely ever since {with a time of remission and then a new diagnosis}. Found this video of a bit of her testimony this week. What you see here - is the real deal. She DOES believe this. She IS this in love with Jesus. And she's beautiful.

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I don't have an underwater camera, but MAN I love these shots!!