I had a holiday today! No, not the one y’all had, although it is that as well. I set aside the worries, the stress, the “gotta figure out” and the “how’my gonna” and didn’t worry about my eye sight, my bills comin’ due, the job market, and the rest of it. I did whatever I felt like, with His leading me . . . wow, peace is a wonderful thing.
I’ve had so many things in life happening all at once and all “do it now” sorts . . . you know how that is. Complicated by the lack of ability to do some of these things for various reasons and thus the list grows . . . you know that too, I know. So, since using a computer means I can read easier as I can make things LARGE and clear, I set aside the many books I would have curled up with and read things online. I did lots of writing, I hung out with a lot of Jesus’ favorite people, and I shared Him with some . . .
I worked on my book, too. Yup, I paused to mow the lawn and run out to buy more half and half (nobody at the grocery on the holiday – go figure) and then finished making a quilt for myself. Here it is:
Sorry the photo is unclear, but I don’t have a camera anymore and so I use my phone for that for now. This quilt is called “Summer at Cape Cod” for it was inspired by summer trips to visit Uncle Bob. I can taste the chowda, smell the salt air, and see the soft weathered gray cottages, the white picket fences, the crushed shell driveways, the flowers . . . Oh, the beauty of the ocean and the soft breezes . . . this quilt is all of that to me. The border and binding, which doesn’t show well here, is reminiscent of wicker and trellises, and such in its white on white linear print.
The unsolved mysteries of my life will be there tomorrow, but maybe the gentle breezes in my heart and memory and the ocean’s waves have combined forces to make some of the worries go away. Peace is a wonderful thing. It’s a gift inside me. I think I need to open it more often.
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Posted by Martha L Shaw 
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