Yarnalong

I have been working in the garden a lot this year and am really enjoying it.  But before you get the wrong impression, I hired someone to help me clean things up so that I could enjoy the fun and pretty stuff.  That hasn't kept me from knitting and reading, though. 

I finished my Seahawk socks.  And then I started the Red Robin Shawl in a really fun yarn.  It's called Supernova from the Knitted Wit on Etsy. 

It's so much fun to watch the colors change and the pattern isn't too hard so far. 

I've been reading the Miss Silver mysteries by Patricia Wentworth, an English author who wrote classic English mysteries in the 1920s through the 1960s.  They are good stories, but not too taxing.  Just right for my current mood.

I've really been feeling good and doing more, for which I'm grateful to the Lord and to summertime and a new anti-depressant.  I'm sharing this in the interest of keeping things real and taking away the shame from mental and emotional struggles.  Anyway, I'm glad for the sweet days of summer.   I hope you are enjoying yours, too.

 

 

Encourage One Another

I got a special package in the mail today that lifted my heart.  It was from a friend met on the Internet.  It contained these things:  a beautiful teapot in a decorative box and an assortment of teas, a handmade bark basket that now proudly sits on my dining table filled with rocks and acorns gathered by her children, and a letter. 

The teapot is inscribed with this poem: 

I said a prayer for you today
and know God must have heard. 
I felt the answer in my heart
although  He spoke no word.

I didn't ask for wealth or fame
I knew you wouldn't mind.
I asked Him to send treasures
of a far more lasting kind.

I asked that He'd be near you
at the start of each new day
to grant you health and blessings
and friends to share our way.

I asked for happiness for you
in all things great and small
but it was for His loving care
I prayed the most of all.


I think God engineers lives intersecting and through her kindness He showed me that He loves me and I am not alone.  Thank you, friend.  Your encouragement has touched me more than you'll ever know. 


Linda