C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Wednesday July 2, 2025

"Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit."-Psalm 28:1
    
    A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and His ability to aid, we shall see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our salvation. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment, but our Rock attends to our cries.
    
    "Be not silent to me." Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will-they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little of God's silence. God's voice is often so terrible that it shakes the wilderness; but His silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant. When God seems to close His ear, we must not therefore close our mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and grief, He will not long deny us a hearing. What a dreadful case should we be in if the Lord should become for ever silent to our prayers? "Lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit." Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to prayer: ours is an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our agitated minds, for He never can find it in His heart to permit His own elect to perish.
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Busy Hands apron finish



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I'm keeping myself busy with sewing these days...I just love my new machine that I got for Christmas.  After having this Janome I'll never again get a Singer, just saying.  My singer was a lemon for over 20 years.  I hated to sew it was that bad.

Just finished my busy hands aprons for the July challenge @ Hopeful Threads and the July 2013 Finishes challenge.  I made three of them...original plan was to make two one for my dad with dementia and for the challenge.  However, my daughter has been doing her CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) training the whole month of July and she was put on the alzheimer/dementia wing in her clinicals so I thought I'd make two to donate.  here are the final aprons ready to go in the mail.





















Tomorrow starts the....

My day to post isn't til next Monday and I'm going to need every day of it.  There will be really cool items, guaranteed, on the hop so be sure to stop by and visit each hop daily.  
Sneak Peek....
Now don't that just put ya in the Christmas spirit.  get ready for some fun hopping. 

Up coming hop...




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2 comments:

  1. OH Wow!!! They looks amazing! The fabrics! The fidgets!!! GREAT JOB!!!! Thank you so much! And very best wishes for your dad too, hope he enjoys his as well. :)

    Those little monster balls are perfect too! Great find! I invite you to add your apron pics to our album here if you'd like, http://www.flickr.com/groups/2282636@N22/

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  2. Oh! I love all three of them! Aren't they fun to sew? (I LOVE my Janome, too. I can't imagine life without her.)

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