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I chose this book based on a reading list of Barbara Rainey's, who with her husband, Dennis, helped found FamilyLife ministry. The book is the story of a marriage between Jenny and Mark Sanford, the former governor of South Carolina. Though it's about the collapse of a relationship, you can't help feeling a certain amount of hope and peace through Jenny's narration. You also can't help wondering how this man could ever have let this woman out of his life.


Staying True by Jenny Sanford

In the governor's mansion, Landon occasionally dressed the bust of Ibra Blackwood in a blue wig, swim goggles, and a hat for the amusement of our visitors. Governor Blackwood is beloved for pardoning all the inmates on his mansion staff one Christmas long ago. So the story goes, he hung small envelopes with certificates of pardon bearing the name of each of the inmates on the Christmas tree in the large drawing room. How I wish the simple act of forgiveness in everyday life was as easy as hanging an ornament on a tree.