Keep a Quiet Heart + The Saturdays

Keep a Quiet Heart by Elisabeth Elliot has sat on my shelf for years.  I often pull it out when things are hard and thumb through to find an article/essay that speaks to what I am going through at that moment, but have never sat down to read it cover to cover.  These past few weeks have been really hard, so I thought 'what better time than now to pull this out and read it?'.  

Nothing could have prepared me for this book.  

This book is a collection of her newsletters from over the years, but it is as if you get to sit down with a cup of coffee and just listen as she unpacks the Word.  She drives home this point over and over and over again: the Word was always meant to be the lens through which you view your life and not the other way around.  I love Elisabeth Elliot.  I love this book.  HIGHLY recommend.

This reading week actually began with a few false starts.  I pulled out a book that I was sure was going to be a great book and it was just simply NOT.  

*sigh*

Then I remembered that I'm perpetually behind on my 'needs to be read pile' and so this next book is a book I wish I had read aloud as my girls were growing up.  Better late than never though, because The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright is a charmingly, adorable book. 

 I LOVED it.  

The Melendy children come up with the best idea one disappointingly rainy afternoon...they would pool their allowances which would allow each sibling to get one chance at something truly grand.  Each sibling will go out, on their own, in the city, to do or see or spend as they will.  It is such a breathtakingly spectacular idea to these children.  I am not sure if the anticipation or the actual event was more enticing to them?  Either way, the author writes in such an enchantingly sweet way, you are right there, joining them in their adventures and loving every minute of it.