So I took this Bible and decided to underline important phrases, and several times a month I would go through with the Bible and write questions based on what I had underlined. For a while, I just used black ink.
For January and February's devotionals, I read the Bible on my computer using Power Bible. Every day, I would read the chapter and click back and forth to Word writing up the questions. For March, I had an idea. We have so many Bibles in our house, and one of them has someone's name in it that I don't even know. I think my husband said that a bus kid left it at church one day when he was in high school and she never came back, so he brought it home and it's been ours ever since (ever since the late 90s!).
So I took this Bible and decided to underline important phrases, and several times a month I would go through with the Bible and write questions based on what I had underlined. For a while, I just used black ink.
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I see I am at least 12 days late with this. I have March's devotional all ready to post about, but I figured I should write about February's first.
This month I had to change several things, first and most important was the yarn bookmark. You can see the red yarn from last month--there's not hardly any left. I have no idea how this happened. I can't believe what I did here. I bought this camo yarn at Michael's a month or so ago, and I got two skeins because I just felt like the blanket I would make from it would need two skeins. So I crocheted the first skein into the first half of a blanket. The stitches felt a little tight, but I didn't think anything of it. Until I looked in my bucket and saw my other hook.
I did not have this yarn just lying around. I bought some yarn last year at Michael's, you know, when it was super cheap. But I didn't buy enough to finish my blanket, so I went to Wal-mart to buy more. Well, Wal-mart didn't have matching yarn, so I got this that was enough shades darker I thought it might look okay. Like I did it on purpose. But when I got home, this dark teal wasn't even in the same family as my other yarn. So I made a completely different blanket! As you can see, it turned out very patchwork-y, which was not my original intent.
I had five balls of this yarn, but I only ended up using three of them. The stitch I used was chain 3 and 2 double crochet in the same spot, then skip 3 and connect it. Or something like that. That's what I did for the border on the sides; the top and bottom were curvy from the first line.
One of my resolutions is to write a devotional book for elementary kids every month. I wrote Proverbs last month (December) so that my son could start the year doing a chapter a day. I hole-punched the papers and stuck them in a binder.
I was so excited to finish my last blanket, I searched through my stash and came across this variegated yarn. I got one skein of it with a Michael's gift card I got for my birthday last year, and I've been saving it for something special. Who said I couldn't make more than one blanket a month? I agree; it's a little bright, but what baby doesn't like bright colors? I did a boring V stitch for the blanket, so to spice it up, I made up a cool border. Here's what it looks like from the front:
I got this yarn (along with 19 other skeins) at Michael's during their black Friday sale--and the reason I got 20 skeins of yarn all at once was because they were only 83 or 76 or 86 or something cents each. Oh yeah! Go me! (and when I finished the blanket, this is all the yarn I had left of the one skein I used!) Per my New Year's "resolutions", I fashioned this one skein of pretty girly yarn into a blanket to give to Her Choice, our local pro-life alternative to Planned Parenthood.
My short answer is yes and no. I guess that doesn't really seem like an answer, more of a cop-out. But I've seen more people change--and not in a good way--than I care to admit. I've also seen a few surprise me.
After talking about it with my husband, I developed a long answer to this question. Yes, people change. Whether they mean to or not, nothing and no one can remain static. Change for the good takes work, hard work. It takes admitting you did something wrong and fixing it, and remembering to do it differently the next hundred times. Change for the bad is so easy, though. I don't mean bad like, a sweet girl like me does nothing and in a week I wake up a horrible monster of a person, although my husband has probably thought that's happened several times. :-) I mean letting little things slip, like not saying I love you every day, or blaming the rest of the family for the dishes piled in the sink (even if they did put them there!). Either way, we don't see it coming. The only people I can tell if they've changed or not (for the better, I think people who used to be horrible and still are after so many years have actually stayed the same, but don't tell my husband!) are the people I haven't seen in a while. So, if I see you every day, you can change your entire life and I probably wouldn't notice. That's just the way it is. I see someone I haven't hung out with in a while, and I take two seconds to assess if they have changed or not, and based on the vibes I feel, I act accordingly. You know what I always forget? In the meantime, and at that meeting? They're probably just like me, trying to notice if I've changed in their perception, trying to put their finger on what's different about me that wasn't there last time. I wish I could remember that in the meantime. All that hard work of changing for the better would be a little easier. But then would I really have changed, if I'm trying to change for other people, isn't that pride? So then I've just exchanged one bad trait for another. It's hard for me to remember to change just for God, though, because I can't see Him. Maybe I should make a wall hanging that says something like, "Work on change, you will see God tomorrow" or something. Hm, that's actually a good idea. Now where are those paints... |
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