By grace you have been saved, not of yourselves.. sometimes it’s hard not to end up in the ditch on the other side of the road when it comes to a revelation on grace. You can end up not doing ANYTHING, or worse, you can end up sinning. I was seeking God this morning because I have been doing nothing for a while now lol being busy being saved by grace and I was feeling further and further from God. So God had to show me that seeking Him wasn’t ‘work’.. He gave me a beautiful feeling of His peaceful presence while I was seeking. Just so that I realized that dwelling in His secret place wasn’t hard work or anything. It’s eight o’clock in the evening now and His beauty is still upon me and I’m taking it as a promise of things to come in my journey towards oneness with God. It’s right that we should have to seek God, that we should always have to choose Him. I’m not sure why I say that exactly, but I’m sure that it’s right. It’s just that we should always be showing our love for Him in that way, always be trying to be good and worshiping. Just because God wants us to love and choose Him. Not just once, but always. Just like marriage, that old sermon, a fave by preachers, you don’t just tell your spouse ‘I love you’ once when you get married and then never again, supposing that they know it now. You tell them constantly, because they need to hear it constantly. So does God. It’s not that there is a danger of us changing our mind… even tho sometimes there actually is that danger. But that’s not the point, it’s that love is a living active thing, a thing that needs to be pushed along and lived in the now. So we seek God all the time, and sweetly bow our heads and say ‘I love You’ today, forever and always.

Well I’m starting on my next quilt.. A much more ambitious project, in that I bought TWO kits to make the quilt twice the size, so it can go on our bed. I must say I’m working a little slower on it. tho you would think I would be working faster as this is my fourth day without smoking and I should be accomplishing more. But I’m just so relaxed, I do believe that Jesus is giving my soul rest. You can see pictures of my completed quilt, the last one i was working on, in my photoblog .. I should probably quilt today, but I got up at 5:30 am! So I’m a little tired. I’ll probably quilt anyway.

i’m making the most lovely quilt. i have the top done, i’ve just cut the borders.. i’m about to iron down the seams, then sew on the borders, then it’s a grueling evening of pinning the the top to the stuffing and the backing… oh yeah i guess i have to cut the backing yet.. i’ll cut the backing and sew it together after i sew the borders on.. THEN it’s pinning time. I loathe that part. you have to spread it out on the floor and try and keep the dog off of it for hours while you kill your knees and your back putting a zillion safety pins in it. I wish my husband was home to feel sorry for me while i do it haha. I do like being a martyr. I took the quilt top into the fabric store to get advice on how much material to buy for borders and backing and the woman who wasn’t a quilter said to the woman who was, ‘look at that! could i make something like that??’ she just loved my quilt it’s so fun and funky. i am loving it too. i’m so glad i got off my butt and started working on it. I think Jesus is liking it too.