I've been tatting awhile now, and I still have SOOOOOO much to learn! I still suffer from the downfall of the newbie - wanting to learn it all at once and trying to run before I walk. Someday, I shall be free from this downfall, but alas, then I fear I shall be dead. I've been working on my YouTube channel (Opposable Thumbs & Scissors), but have found a new downfall - too many ideas & not enough energy, talent, nor knowhow. Most days I still feel like I'm slogging through thick mud - I'm heaving my body around and my head is full of fog. I'm praying that it ends soon and try to push myself to do something. I think I've allowed this to bring me down, and have struggled to tat even the very basic of patterns. I'm pressing onward, though! Trying to remind myself that I can do all things through Christ! And that I have the mind of Christ, and His mind isn't full of fog. I want to be an encourager and leave people feeling better....
Tatting!!! Tatting is a form of lace making made with fingers, shuttle, or needle. There are TONS of places to learn about what tatting is online, and it has a full and wonderful history. It is an old art, but it's being revived again. Thank the Lord for that and that I found it! Maybe if there is an interest, I'll put some more information here or even make a whole blog about it, but for now I'm just leaving this here. How did I get started in tatting? Well, that needs a bit of backstory. Let me start by saying that I love helping people. The Lord opened an opportunity to begin doing just that with some older members of my church. This is how I met Grace. She had lost her husband a few months prior (I sadly never got to meet him) and she was moving from her house into an apartment. Grace is legally blind, so when I helped her move, we had to go through every little thing with me describing what I thought it...
My friend Debra recently wrote a blog post about jars in her blog. (If you're not a regular reader, I encourage you to read it as it is always thought-provoking). Please read it here . In the post she spoke of several "jars" and what they might contain... It got me thinking about my own "jars" and what I had put into them over the years, but also what they were FOR. Not Just for Show In the Tuesday Women's Bible study, we're studying the fruit of the Spirit. One of the things we've talked about is that the "fruit" that we grow isn't so we can strut around showing off our beautiful fruit... mostly because it isn't ours anyway; it's fruit of the Spirit. Rather this fruit that we grow is meant to be consumed. People around us are starving for love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control. Back to the Jars Which got me thinking about Deb's post and the jars. It's not enough...
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