Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

My favorite scripture in the Bible is Psalm 139.

here is a poem by Joy Morgan Davis

ART APPRECIATION

Lord,

Sometimes when I look

At my life

It seems like a homespun

Patchwork quilt...

Quaint but not quite "together"!

There are bits and pieces of

Cloths and colors.

Scraps of material,

The days of my life.

When you began to put together

The days of my life

You must have known

Where each piece would go...

You've told me that I am

Fearfully and wonderfully

Made.....

And I believe You, Lord.

I do!

I may not be a velvet tapestry,

But even crazy quilts

Have purpose,

To give warmth and

Cozy comfort and

Color to a room!

Whaever I am, Lord,

You made me...

Lovingly,

Carefully,

Reverently,

And exactly right!

Happy Monkey

In the Artist's Circle workshop we are painting pellon then embedding things using wonder under to seal it all in.

Here is my sample piece. I went whimsical with a monkey creation. I cut out a shape of a monkey head. I painted my pellon with neocolor
wax pastels. I didn't wait for it to dry, I just ironed it
until it was dry. Then I added fibery yarn, envelope clasps, a ribbon with word "Happy" on it, dropped two dots of lumiere paint for nose and sharpied the nostrils. Placed wonder under on top, pressed with iron, and last but not least covered it with a blue sheer fabric. The possibilities are endless. I wonder if Hailey would enjoy making one of these?

Sometimes I need to lighten up and not take life so seriously. Have fun and enjoy your life. Jesus paid the greatest price of all for us to enjoy our lives here and now.

New Life, New Birth

My favorite Chapter in the Bible is Psalm 139. Before you and I were created it says He, God, knew you while you were in your mother's womb. He created you and fashioned you to be creative for Him. He created you to fulfill your destiny. Do you know your destiny? Are you creating for HIM?

The Lone Button

or Button, Button, Who's Got the Button

Today is the last day to post pics to the FAT Dorset Button trade. Here is my one, lone, little, blue button. The only one right now I feel worthy of posting for trade. The others are flawed. They are my learning curve buttons. Aren't you glad God does not have a learning curve and that He sees us as perfect through Jesus' eyes. Worthy of the ultimate trade - Jesus' life for mine, for yours. A life in eternity! The button was placed on page 19 from the book "50 Heirloom Buttons to Make". One day maybe I will make buttons that look like this, but not today.

Day 12 - The God Who Knows All

or there was a day I would have with sarcasm called Him "Mr. Know-It-All". As a little girl I could never reconcile in my mind and heart why if He was such a loving God would He take my dad away from me when I was only three. And as I type this I realize that maybe that is why I have such a love for the number 3. Hidden deep within all of us are things God wants us to reconcile with Him. The "whys" probably will never be answered this side of Heaven. But today's scripture is one I have grown to love and cherish as I have grown older. If 1 Corinthians 13 is considered the love chapter then Psalm 139 is the chapter of new birth for me.

"O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me." and verse 14 -

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well." and verse 17 -

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!

how great is the sum of them!!

Through my high school English classes I fell in love with the King James version of the Bible.

There is an elegance in all the "Thee's and Thou's".

As a little girl I would lay in the grass for hours looking down

into the world of ants and bugs. I would find a fascination in a

world that was so minuscule to most and yet to me very fascinating.

A world that most people ignored and never wondered were

they crushing another creature's "earth" as they traveled about

on their feet; like in the book Gulliver's Travels. I lay there

pondering God and the "why's".

Longing for an answer that would never come. Except to discover verse 23,24

Search me, O God, and know my heart:

try me, and know my thoughts:

And see if there be any wicked way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

Because if I could reconcile that I was the cause of why my dad was taken,

maybe I was bad, maybe I wasn't worth loving, maybe, maybe....

then that would explain all my hurt and pain. Then it would go away

and I could love The Everlasting God with all my heart, soul and mind.

Until then I would struggle with God.