Free Pattern Friday
Everyone needs a light blue gingham on-hand, right? This one reminds me of an afternoon Summer picnic. Please click the category link to read rules for using this image. Enjoy!
Free Pattern Friday
I doodled some of the things that were on my mind recently when I was spending time alone with God. It encouraged me, and I hope it can do the same for someone else. It is a much larger size than my other patterns but looks nice on a desktop (I think). Please click the category link below for rules to use this image. Enjoy!
Free Pattern Friday
This pattern entitled “Pizzaz” is one I came up with a while ago when I was just fooling around with some basic shapes and in a “liney” mood. I liked the result and then tried it out in various colors. I really like this orange version. It kind of reminds me of 1974… um, wait. I wasn’t born then. Anyway, maybe a rug. Click on the category link for rules for using this image. Enjoy!
Free Pattern Friday
Here is a free pattern entitled “Petal Party Yellow” that I designed with Spring and Summer fun in mind. Lydia really likes this design. The full size is 300 x 300 pixels. Simply save the image for your own personal pattern use. Do not reproduce the image in any form for commercial purposes. Enjoy!
Free Pattern Friday
Happy Friday! I have been wanting to get my creative juices flowing again after several months of design neglect. I really enjoy illustrating and designing, and it can be really enjoyable right now to sit at the table with our older three who will willingly sketch and color for over an hour at a time.
To discipline myself to do something new at least once a week, I’m going to post a free pattern every Friday for your personal use. If you like a pattern, save it and use it on your desktop (remember to tile it) or however you’d like. I only ask that you not use it for commercial purposes.
So here’s the first pattern — it is one I made yesterday with Lydia during naptime. It is called “Crazy Dolls” because I think it looks like little babies swaddled in crazy quilts. Remember that it is for pattern use, so if you enlarge it, it’s going to look pixelated (not pretty). Enjoy!
Worthy Devices – Seventh Device and Remedies
I haven’t posted one of these in a while, but here is the subsequent chapter’s thoughts that I have noted.
Device (7) – By making the soul bold to venture upon the occasions of sin. Saith Satan, ‘You may walk by the harlot’s door though you won’t go into the harlot’s bed; you may sit and sup with the drunkard, though you won’t be drunk with the drunkard…’
Remedy (1) – Solemnly dwell upon those scriptures that do expressly command us to avoid the occasions of sin, and the least appearance of evil (1 Thess. 5:22)… So in Proverbs 4:14,15 you have another command: ‘Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men: avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.’ This triple gradation of Solomon showeth with a great emphasis, how necessary it is for men to flee from all appearance of sin, as the seaman shuns sands and shelves, and as men shun those that have the plague-sores running upon them.
Remedy (2) – The second remedy against this device of Satan is, solemnly to consider, That ordinarily there is no conquest over sin, without the soul turning from the occasion of sin. God will not remove the temptation, except you turn from the occasion…As long as there is fuel in our hearts for a temptation, we cannot be secure. He that hath gunpowder about him had need keep far enough off from sparkles. To rush upon the occasions of sin is both to tempt ourselves, and to tempt Satan to tempt our souls.
Ah, souls, often remember how frequently you have been overcome by sin, when you have boldly gone upon the occasions of sin: look back, souls, to the day of your vanity, wherein you have been as easily conquered as tempted, vanquished as assaulted, when you have played with the occasions of sin. As you would for the future be kept from the acting of sin, and be made victorious over sin, oh! flee from the occasions of sin.
Remedy (3) – Seriously consider, That other precious saints, that were once glorious on earth, and are now triumphing in heaven, have turned from the occasions of sin, as hell itself; as you may see in Joseph (Gen. 39:10).
The devil counts a fit occasion half a conquest, for he knows that corrupt nature hath a seed-plot for all sin, which being drawn forth and watered by some sinful occasion, is soon set-a-work to the producing of death and destruction. The shunning the occasions of sin renders a man most like the best of men.
The eye is the window of the soul, and if that should be always open, the soul might smart for it. It is best and safest to have the eye always fixed upon the highest and noblest objects…He that shooteth at the sun, though he be far short, will shoot higher than he that aimeth at a shrub. It is best, and it speaks out much of Christ within, to eye the highest and the worthiest examples.
Remedy (4) – The fourth remedy against this device of Satan is, solemnly to consider, That the avoiding of the occasions of sin, is an evidence of grace, and that which lifts up a man above most other men in the world.
Nothing but grace can fence a man against the occasions of sin.
– Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices (pp. 66 – 70)
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