Week seven of Kona at the Clark Homestead was punctuated by my awful head cold that I got from my hubby. First the head ache, then some respiratory sinus pressure, then the ears, and chest and now just some barely there lingering annoyances. So for the first time in a very long while, I did not go to help out at my daughter’s this week.
No daycare for Honey. No kid time for Kona. No boatloads of laundry. Just lots of aceltominiphine and ibuprofen. It was rough. But I’ve heard that others had it worse. It’s just that for me sleep eludes again.
So while one day it did absolutely nothing, the next day I took a break from all other chores and crocheted a small sweater for Kona. I know… It looks a bit small. But the pattern has begun and the next one will be better color coordinated and I have a few small changes to make. The sweater needs to graduate larger and I think that part is fibured out along with how to make it bigger across the back.
He was the perfect little model. The only thing missing is a ring to clip the leash unto. Yeah, well…
This week the Book I am listening to is “woven” by Meredith Miller. There is a whole lot of her “language” choice that I do not care for. Redefining words that have meant one thing into another just for the purpose of self approval seems rather narcissist or something. But there are enough other things in the book that maybe get her point across. It’s hard to spend so much of my listening applying grace and mercy to the author for her “misuse” of words. (The most difficult one is her use of the Hebrew word for God that is repeated to the point of loosing it’s reverence- Yahweh. This is a word for them that is only a breath or whisper word. It is not spoken in great repetition.). God seems to have lost His Holiness in this book.
Our pastor is doing a sermon series on the book of Romans. Romans 1:17 is the verse I chose to memorize this week. “For in it -the gospel- the righteousness of God is revealed from faith unto faith, as it is written ‘the just shall live by faith.’” In the message his emphasis on the Faith Unto Faith really hit home.
I am not a swimmer so finding the right analogy to understand this meaning is a little harder. The beginner swimmer starts in an area of water in which he or she can touch the bottom. Soon as skills are learned the lifeguard takes the swimmer into deeper water to test their skill and learn more about the buoyancy of the body when the lungs are filled with air. Faith is like that. The more we take in the truth of God’s promises, the better we learn to float on His word. From faith in the Cross to faith in life’s challenges our learning teaches us more about filling up with the Air ie God’s righteousness and the better we will float undisturbed through life’s rough seas. Yeah, I’m not really a swimmer. But I can float on my back, and I can do the back stroke. It’s tucking my head into the water that I don’t like to do.
Faith unto faith going deeper into trust in God is part of how we weather the floods of life.
Finding joy in life or in spite of life is the deeper part of faith’s well. There is another saying about faith being about drinking from the well spring of salvation. So many spiritual lessons to learn from physics.
Meanwhile this little crochet mosaic pattern is one of my favorites. It will continue to be a pattern I return to again and again. From mittens, to hats, to bags, to a doggie sweater! Here I go.
Kona will probably out grow the little sweater before he even gets to use it. The forecast this next week is seasonably average to warm. The pattern will be adjusted going forward. But I have some other things to crochet and will have to return to this later.