Garage Sale
I started my “online garage sale” several months ago via Facebook to give away stuff that I no longer need or want. I’ve changed the link from my personal site and added a few more items since then.
If you would like to browse the garage and give any of these things a new home, please leave a comment below the item’s post description to let me know. I will be adding more things by the end of June.
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!
Jesus, true joy
Jesus, true joy
All the rest fading, flying, winding to shadow
Wild heart, marred soul,
Seeping sickness of empty sin-pleasures –
All reaching rivers of unrest,
All vanity-cries silenced by Your blood
Winter’s sunlight
Dark night’s dawn
Victorious Calling, Clearing, Cleansing
Enigma guarding and silent
Abundance in origin
Exploding into radiant red,
Exploding into beauty
Jesus, true joy
Ruby Doll (aka “Miss Smarty”)
Ruby Doll Tutorial © 2007 One Round Robin
Forsake me not
“Forsake me not, O Lord.” — Psalm 38:21
Frequently we pray that God would not forsake us in the hour of trial and temptation, but we too much forget that we have need to use this prayer at all times. There is no moment of our life, however holy, in which we can do without his constant upholding. Whether in light or in darkness, in communion or in temptation, we alike need the prayer, “Forsake me not, O Lord.” “Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.”
A little child, while learning to walk, always needs the nurse’s aid. The ship left by the pilot drifts at once from her course. We cannot do without continued aid from above; let it then be your prayer to-day, “Forsake me not. Father, forsake not thy child, lest he fall by the hand of the enemy. Shepherd, forsake not thy lamb, lest he wander from the safety of the fold. Great Husbandman, forsake not thy plant, lest it wither and die. ‘Forsake me not, O Lord,’ now; and forsake me not at any moment of my life. Forsake me not in my joys, lest they absorb my heart. Forsake me not in my sorrows, lest I murmur against thee. Forsake me not in the day of my repentance, lest I lose the hope of pardon, and fall into despair; and forsake me not in the day of my strongest faith, lest faith degenerate into presumption. Forsake me not, for without thee I am weak, but with thee I am strong. Forsake me not, for my path is dangerous, and full of snares, and I cannot do without thy guidance.
The hen forsakes not her brood, do thou then evermore cover me with thy feathers, and permit me under thy wings to find my refuge. ‘Be not far from me, O Lord, for trouble is near, for there is none to help.’ ‘Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation!’”
“O ever in our cleansed breast,
Bid thine Eternal Spirit rest;
And make our secret soul to be
A temple pure and worthy thee.”
– Spurgeon, Morning & Evening
Don’t Waste my 5K
I started running regularly again about four months ago. My husband helped me jumpstart with P90 (not P90X – I wasn’t ready for that yet), and it was really the first time since before I had Lydia, my first child, that I have had a steady diet of exercise. (Highly recommend P90 by the way.) Nothing physically helps me like a good run. My only companion is a teeny refurbished ipod shuffle (also highly recommend!) packed with a mixture from my favorites — Fernando Ortega, Alison Krauss, Anna Vandas, Mozart, Telemann, Nigel North, and Waterdeep.
This week Eric ordered a new cd for running, and I love it! I’m not huge on rap/hip hop, but I am huge on John Piper. Remember Jock Jams? Sermon Jams is a compilation sort of like that of Piper sermon clips set to music. It’s good stuff. I kind of chuckle as the songs begin until Piper starts talking, and then I’m convicted by the Holy Spirit to sober up and really listen to the message. It’s great. I think I might have to import some more stuff like it to get me going as I trudge over the big bridge here in town.
Desiring God, the ministry of John Piper, has a partner site called Don’t Waste Your Life that I have been reading so much in the last several days. I love this video (it is not on the Sermon Jams cd, though) from LaCrae:
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