We're getting ready to start out first official year of homeschooling. Sparrow doesn't really have to start school this year but she likes school and she is capable so why not? We are both excited! I love all things stationary; comfortable pens, cute pencils, pretty paper, beautiful notebooks, lesson plans, books and an organizer - YES!!!
I'm still working on cleaning up the third series of Ackermann's Repository embroidery patterns.
Also in the works is Meerkat’s blanket. Somehow it just keeps getting pushed aside for other important things.
Which leads me to one of my favorite sayings: "Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important".
Hope your summer is wonder-filled and blessed.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
The Sad
The first day of July marked 6 months from the day my twins were born. The tears finally flowed last night. It still hurts and it always will. I miss him. The strangest things and visions come to your mind. I don't mean that in a supernatural way, just your own imaginings. How quiet the delivery room must have been when neither baby cried. Meerkat’s confusion that his brother was not up against him. It was amazing how much they cuddled in my womb.
I know Listener is better off in Heaven with God. But, I miss him. His Daddy misses him. His sister misses him. His brother misses him. He is not an angel. Angels, the Biblical creatures, cannot attain salvation as people can. They are different created beings and human babies don't change into another creature becoming angels when they die. That is a very good thing indeed. There isn't much in the Bible about whether babies have grown up bodies in heaven (which is the general belief) or if they grow in their new bodies like an earth-bound child does. Either way, my sweet Listener will never know sin. He will never know heartache, sadness, betrayal. Only joy, peace, the presence of God Himself! That's the ultimate comfort.
God, the God of the Bible, is loving beyond anything we can comprehend. He is love. He is holy too and we should never forget that truth either. In fact He is so very different from us that it will probably take all of eternity to begin to truly understand.
Oh, that's another comforting gift from God, the length of eternity versus the length of a lifespan on earth. I know that as a human my lifespan is so very short here on earth. Thus my missing him will be short comparatively. I have a job to do here on earth. Several in fact and I will continue to do the best that I can until that sweet day when God calls me home. What a reunion that will be! Until then I'll go on missing Listener while I teach his sister and his twin God's word. I'll teach them about salvation and I'll pray that they choose to follow Christ while they are young. I'll also tell them stories about when Simon was with us on Earth.
Do you share God's truth, His word, with your children?
I know Listener is better off in Heaven with God. But, I miss him. His Daddy misses him. His sister misses him. His brother misses him. He is not an angel. Angels, the Biblical creatures, cannot attain salvation as people can. They are different created beings and human babies don't change into another creature becoming angels when they die. That is a very good thing indeed. There isn't much in the Bible about whether babies have grown up bodies in heaven (which is the general belief) or if they grow in their new bodies like an earth-bound child does. Either way, my sweet Listener will never know sin. He will never know heartache, sadness, betrayal. Only joy, peace, the presence of God Himself! That's the ultimate comfort.
God, the God of the Bible, is loving beyond anything we can comprehend. He is love. He is holy too and we should never forget that truth either. In fact He is so very different from us that it will probably take all of eternity to begin to truly understand.
Oh, that's another comforting gift from God, the length of eternity versus the length of a lifespan on earth. I know that as a human my lifespan is so very short here on earth. Thus my missing him will be short comparatively. I have a job to do here on earth. Several in fact and I will continue to do the best that I can until that sweet day when God calls me home. What a reunion that will be! Until then I'll go on missing Listener while I teach his sister and his twin God's word. I'll teach them about salvation and I'll pray that they choose to follow Christ while they are young. I'll also tell them stories about when Simon was with us on Earth.
Do you share God's truth, His word, with your children?
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Ackermann's Repository embroidery designs series 2
Don't let the title limit your creativity. You can use these patterns to paint or do whatever you like! Just remember the copyright on them is "attribution- noncommercial -share alike creative commons" that means you can do whatever you would like as long as you attribute them to me with the exception that you cannot sell the designs in any way shape or form. (you are free of course to sell what you make with them) you can share them for free too just don't forget the attribution!
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