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From the Heart

From the Heart

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From the Heart-quilt on a rockerToday’s post comes from the heart. I share it with:

  • Deep feelings
  • Sincere emotions
  • Love for the families I mention

Foster parents share their homes and their hearts.

They care for children who need a temporary home. They help children and families pick up the pieces of their lives.

Foster parents serve from the heart.

They love their children during good times and bad. They celebrate when children do well. They choose to love when children:

  • Reject their love
  • Damage their home
  • Break their hearts with bad choices

Foster parents receive few rewards.

News reports usually tell only bad foster parent stories. They rarely mention the families who give good care. Yet, foster parents continue their labor of love anyway.

My parents provided foster care several years. I worked with foster families almost 30 years. I saw their love and shared their hurt.

When I retired, foster parents gave me this quilt from their hearts. I recently wrote about it for Kentucky Living magazine.

When you see foster parents, thank them from your heart for:

  • Caring
  • Sharing
  • Giving
  • Healing

Happy Valentine’s Day to families who make our world a better place.

“Love one another deeply, from the heart” (1 Peter 1:22 NIV).

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Have Your Work Cut Out for You

Have Your Work Cut Out for You

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Have Your Work Cut Out for You--quilt piecesIf you sew, you know that cutting the cloth only begins your task. Preparation is complete. You have your work cut out for you. Yet, you still have most of the work to do.

Handmade quilts are beautiful. They also require a lot of work. To make a quilt, you must:

  • Cut the cloth into pieces.
  • Sew the pieces together for the quilt top.
  • Sew the batting (filling) and lining to the back of the quilt.
  • Trim the edge of the quilt.
  • Decorate with stitches, yarn, or other material, if desired.

Have Your Work Cut Out for You 1--sewing quilt piecesSome quilts are fancier than others. All require hard work. That is true whether you sew your quilt by machine or by hand.

As a small child, I was fascinated by the sewing and quilting completed by my mother, grandmother, and other relatives. I proudly display much of their work in my memory bedroom.

The quilts hang on racks made by my father. His handiwork also meant having his work cut out for him.

If you have your work cut out for you, you have a difficult job to do. 

Like making a quilt,

  • The task may be large.
  • You may have little help from others.
  • The job may require a lot of time.
  • You might have to complete several steps.

However, like a hard row to hoe, you tackle the job one step at a time.

The harder the work, the greater the satisfaction when the work is complete.

Have Your Work Cut Out for You--quilt on bedWhat fun to admire the beauty of a new quilt or any job well done. How much greater the satisfaction when you know you did that work yourself.

“We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do “(Ephesians 2:10 NIV).

Thanks to Sherry Garner for the suggestion and to Palvena Pace for her quilting photos.

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