Last week was really busy - home from Kiev on Saturday, Church w/teaching Sunday school on Sunday, general life stuff on Monday and Tuesday, Seder service at church on Wednesday, more general life stuff on Thursday, Good Friday service on Friday, dinner with Melinda and Irina on Saturday, Easter yesterday morning with team Easter dinner in the evening. We stayed way later than we should have - didn't get home until after 11pm! First time for that.
Got a lot of embroidery done on the blanket with many thoughts and prayers for the recipient while working on it. I had a goal of a certain section being finished and I'll reach that goal later today. Then - I'll rewarp the little loom and make another scarf. It's taken me a while to decide what I want to try next - yarn combination and pattern.
I read a blog, Crazy As A Loom (Sue introduced me to it!) and the writer is happy weaving rugs all day long for weeks. She also does placemats, shawls and tote bags, but mostly rugs. She has a little shop she sells them in, over the internet, and apparently she does pretty well with it.
I don't think I could do that. It's one of my flaws - I will do something over and over until I'm heartily sick of it - and then, I need something NEW! Which is why I'm trying to space out the weaving with embroidery - that way I won't get "heartily sick" of either one! :) haha. But it's true - once I start on something, I could work on it for hours - days, even - and then, I'm DONE with it. At least for awhile. That's part of the reason it took me almost 10 years to do one cross-stitch project. Would have taken my sister 3 or 4 weeks, I'm sure, but after working on it for a week or so, it went into the "I don't want to look at this again!" pile/stack/bag of similar items and disappeared. Disappeared until I was looking through my stash of UFO's and there it was! I have 3 other projects right now that are waiting until the blanket is finished, and then I'm going to finish one of them. So, I'm pacing myself - trying to pace myself! - so the blanket doesn't end up in that stack, too. I think it's going to be a long while before I get tired of weaving, tho, simply because there are so many different things I can do with even this little loom. Each scarf right now is a whole new adventure!
I read the news today and am filled with an incredible sense of sadness. I don't think the American public is taking this disaster in Japan seriously enough. I know talking with people here it's all just kind of "ho, hum, another earthquake, another nuclear disaster, the media tells us it's not that bad, yawn". And all the while tons of radioactive water and air is spewing out of those reactors with no end in sight.
It's dangerous to walk in the rain now.
It's dangerous to drink milk now.
It's dangerous to eat certain foods now.
It's dangerous to breathe now.
It's dangerous to simply be alive and live now.
A new kind of danger - one we can't see, taste, feel or smell. Yet it falls all around us, in individual rain drops, in that bite of cheese you just ate, in that deep breath of fresh mountain air you drew deep into your lungs.
My grandchildren will never know the pleasure of being safe from the world around them. Not because they are afraid of war or a "bad guy", but because the actual physical earth is poisoned.
No, I don't think people are taking this seriously enough. The knowledge is too difficult to live with. It's easier to ignore it, pretend it doesn't exist.
I am so thankful that I believe God is sovereign, that none of this is an accident. If I truly believed that other way - what reason would there be for even trying to go on living? Maybe that is why we read so often over the past few years about a father or mother killing all of their children and then themselves. They have no hope in the incredibly horrible world.
But I have hope - in Jesus Christ. And He promised never to leave me, never to foresake me. He promised that He would provide for my every need. And more than that, He promised me that when I die I will go to heaven, that He is preparing a place for me there, and that He will give me, and all Believers, a new heaven and a new earth, totally free from sin and it's effect.
I long more and more for heaven. I'm hungry to be with my Savior! I don't want to die, but I am not afraid to die. Strange, but it can be said this way: I'm not afraid to live, I am not afraid to die.
Well, I guess I'll go get dressed for the day (finally!), which means I need to stop writing.
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