Number 10 (of 12) crazy quilt block

Finished block number 10 for the crazy quilt journal project (2016) - pushing along!
  
Incorporated 7 stitches from Take a Stitch Tuesday

(upper) #72 basque stitch, #77 pistil stitch; (right) #71 alternating up and down buttonhole stitch; (around words) #76 whipped chain; (left) #69 magic chain; (center) #78 feathered up and down buttonhole; (bottom) #74 buttonholed cable chain

stitches can be found here  in the middle of the page.

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Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. hebrews 10:35

bow

working on Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2016

in your patience

sheep by Rigel

In your patience.........

condo rice/code pink 2007

possess ye your souls.   Luke 21:19

Character matters

photo by dMagnus

 Leopards do not change their spots.  Even if they act or look like kitty cats.... 

photo by Tambako the Jaguar

Values and character are observed over time, especially when choosing a candidate...looking at someone who says what you want to hear & gives you that emotional rush, while disregarding how they  live & act is like looking at that adorable  leopard lying there gazing at you,& thinking...

photobyDennisJarvis

"they won't bite me."

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Jeremiah 23:13

what's free?

making an easter card

quoted from a Good Friday missionary update I received from a family serving as missionaries in very rural China.

"The common US expression “Freedom isn’t free” describes how the blood-and-tear sacrifices of our militaries over two and a half centuries have secured for our citizens a freedom all can enjoy, though most do not fully appreciate its cost. In like manner, believers across the world enjoy a freedom in salvation which, although free for the taking, was never free for the giving, and most do not fully comprehend or appreciate its true cost.

If ever inclined to do so, sinful human beings can forgive others who’ve wronged them, simply “out of the goodness of the heart”; yet this is something that God could never do. Such arbitrary, inconsistent, and likely short-lived “forgiveness” finds little comparison to the forgiveness God offers (Matthew 18:21-35), for it truly costs us nothing. In reality, our holy and just God could never forgive sin simply because He’s kind and loving, for it is neither kind nor loving (nor holy nor just) to let a debt of sin go unpaid. God’s forgiveness had a cost: His forgiveness finds its kindness, love, holiness, and justice in the work of Jesus Christ, in the shedding of His Son’s own precious blood on the cross (Hebrews 9:22).

We often (redundantly) describe salvation as “God’s free gift,” and Scripture also speaks of our having been “freely justified” (Romans 3:24, ASV) and how God will “freely give us all things” (Romans 8:32, ASV; 1Corinthians 2:12, ESV), yet these descriptions are fully people-centered. We must never forget that—divinely speaking—our justification was far from free. At great expense to Himself, God provided the world with a Gift, the life of His own dear Son. In His death, Jesus “paid the ultimate price” for our redemption, and this cost—having satisfied our sin debt outstanding—is the very basis of divine forgiveness.

Christ’s sacrifice was so complete that when He “bought us with a price” (1Corinthians 6:20), His payment didn’t simply save us at a moment in the past, but instead continues to save us even now (1John 1:9). The death of Jesus Christ so many “Good Fridays” ago is truly the lynchpin to all history, human and divine, for it is the epitome of God’s immeasurable love, the declaration of His impossible mercy, and the foundation of His every grace. So as you celebrate this historical event this week, please remember: although it has cost us nothing, spiritual “freedom isn’t free.” "  AF family

Directly quoted from a missionary update I received; this family serves as missionaries in very rural China

Cool Chèche

A Cool (summer weather, cool cotton/rayon) Shawl I crafted over the past two weeks!  It is a lovely pattern, easy to follow, available in the original French, and also an English translation.  The links may be found here on ravelry .

Big thank you to Katia64 for designing and sharing the pattern.

info on my version of the shawl is on ravelry as well

I was able to see someone very very special this week, that we had not seen for 12 years - I am so thankful to Almighty God for this wonderful blessing.  My heart is filled with love and joy, and though I miss this person so very terribly, these afflictions are so temporary, eternity is forever - which is why knowing Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour is more than a life or death question, it is a decision about where you have chosen to spend eternity....with Christ?...or with God's wrath....for eternity.

Please choose life in Christ! He and He alone paid for all your, my, the world's sins - 

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 1 john 5:11-13

Together

Christmas reminds us

that God's promises

never fail -

He came to us,

to provide the way.

for us to be,

together forever with Him

right now

But God, who is rich in mercy,

for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Even when we were dead in sins,

hath quickened us

together with Christ,

(by grace ye are saved;)

And hath raised us up together,

and made us sit together

in heavenly places

in Christ Jesus:

That in the ages to come he might shew

the exceeding riches of his grace

in his kindness

toward us

through Christ Jesus    ephesians 2:4-7

Merry Christmas!~! every single day :)

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. romans 15:13

Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 1 peter 1:8

who hears your voice?

Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth: and with my song will I praise him...... Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance:  feed them also, and lift them up forever. psalm 28:6-9

God is so faithful - no matter what - and though times are bad, He is always good - cry out to Him! He is eager to hear, loves to show mercy, and ready to save ~

Gaze

Max is NOT afraid of Caspar by Dawn Huczek

It all depends on where one casts their gaze - I get distracted with politics, the world, the media.......then I remember to cast my eyes and gaze upon the One who matters - the One who is in control - the One who works mightily....and who Saves.  Lord Jesus Christ.  And He calls you too :)

and He will never cast you away.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment.  He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
We love Him, because he first loved us. 1 john 4:18-19


Here is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 john 4:10


smile and rejoice in that :) do you know Him?

Name Calling

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. acts 4:12

For whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
romans 10:13

I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and will call upon the name of the LORD.  psalm 16:17

Call on His Name, and be saved

The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10:8-9

yes - I preach! -people are dead in their sins, and there is good news and life In Christ!  He gave me a voice, and only the living can praise His name and speak - the dead cannot :)

photo credits:
"Children in Egypt"
by Joanna Jablo

new

times of grave danger

In Times of Grave Danger by franticmeerkat.etsy.com

  On the news, in the media, the web, where ever, what ever, 
~ not everyone who names the name of Jesus Christ is of Him   
                 ...don't get in the boat with them.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.   1 john 4:1-4