C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional
Thursday May 22, 2025

"He led them forth by the right way."-Psalm 107:7
    
    Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to enquire "Why is it thus with me?" I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm, I shall never be moved. Lord, thou dost hide Thy face, and I am troubled. It was but yesterday that I could read my title clear; to-day my evidences are bedimmed, and my hopes are clouded. Yesterday I could climb to Pisgah's top, and view the landscape o'er, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance; to-day, my spirit has no hopes, but many fears; no joys, but much distress. Is this part of God's plan with me? Can this be the way in which God would bring me to heaven? Yes, it is even so. The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these things are but parts of God's method of making you ripe for the great inheritance upon which you shall soon enter. These trials are for the testing and strengthening of your faith-they are waves that wash you further upon the rock-they are winds which waft your ship the more swiftly towards the desired haven. According to David's words, so it might be said of you, "so He bringeth them to their desired haven." By honour and dishonour, by evil report and by good report, by plenty and by poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, by all these things is the life of your souls maintained, and by each of these are you helped on your way. Oh, think not, believer, that your sorrows are out of God's plan; they are necessary parts of it. "We must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom." Learn, then, even to "count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations."
    
    "O let my trembling soul be still,
    And wait Thy wise, Thy holy will!
    I cannot, Lord, Thy purpose see,
    Yet all is well since ruled by Thee."
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

What I worked on this weekend

Well,  I completed a project I started last year....(if you don't remember you can read here.)  Anyway..I finished a pin cushion/thread catcher while using my new ruffler foot.

and yes if you followed the link to the post I gave above.  I did make one change.  I got rid of the red rick rack.  I didn't care for the red it was too bright of a red for the material.  I'm glad I did because it was a battle to decide to rip it off.  However, my sewing room motto:
Whatsoever a woman sewth that shall she also rip 
So therefore we ripped.  ;P  When I sew, the seam ripper and I are BFF.

Here are a few more snaps of the whole project...


I made it so if I wanted to use just the pin cushion I could...


pattern??? No, I just made it up as I went.  I saw the pin cushion here, and just made my own pattern.  Then I decided I wanted to try my hand at making a thread catcher.  I found a tutorial for a thread catcher (I don't remember which site I was at, sew I can't give credit. sorry)  I started and completed the thread catcher last year for the pincushion blog hop.  Any way another completed project for 2014.  ;P

Now I have to get serious about the project for....



 because I'm running on RUSH hour time. I went out last weekend looking for some inspiration and all I came home with was....
sew I frantically started digging in my stash.  What did I find?????
Not a whole lot of inspiration that is for sure.  ARGH!!!!  Callgon take me away!
Don't forget this Friday is....
Handmade by Heidi
I get to participate as I'll be home alone.  Yeah me!!!!  Got lots of work to do. Don't know what FNSi is all about check it out here.  Sign up is here.



WIPs on Wednesdays

Fort Worth Fabric Studio Blog




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  1. Rebecca GraceAugust 13, 2014 at 5:39 PM

    I LOVE your little apple core pincushion and thread catcher! Adorable!

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