It Must Have Seemed So Strange

It must have seemed so strange to Him
To lay His glory down;
For long before the worlds were made
His head had worn a crown.

The morning stars had sung for Him,
Till all the heavenly space
Was filled with ringing praises of
His majesty and grace.

His throne. the throne of the Most High,
With gold and gems was bright;
There thronging angels worshiped Him
And served Him day and night.

And now upon this earth, whose first
Foundations He had laid,
His weary feet were cut and bruised
By stones which He had made.

The sun which He had hung on high
Beat down upon His head.
He must have watched the stars at night,
The sunsets glowing red,

Where He had walked once on a time
In glory never dreamed,
And then, remembering, how strange,
How strange earth must have seemed!

And it will seem as strange to us,
Yet sweet beyond compare,
To quit earth's dusty roads and walk
With Him in glory there!

-by Martha Snell Nicholson

For Whom I Pray

They seem a seperate company,
Special and set apart,
And each one bears, all unaware,
The imprint of my heart.

For these are they for whom I pray;
The ones whose names I speak
Before God's throne, the ones for whom
His favor I would seek.

Some are my nearest, dearest. Some
But strangers in the street,
And some are those of whom I read,
But each name has a sweet

Significance, as though my Lord
And I a secret shared
About them, which will come to light
The day when hearts are bared

And all the hidden things made known.
Dear ones for whom I pray,
How sweet to meet you face to face
On Heaven's streets some day!

-by Martha Snell Nicholson

The Cross Of Christ

It makes a shadow on the grass,
That cross on which Christ died;
Oh, there my helpless soul has fled,
And there it will abide.

Though pomp and circumstance parade
And bannered horsemen ride,
They cannot lure me from the cross
Oh which my Savior died.

For all the wealth of all earth's kings
I would not turn aside;
I want no other riches save
That crimson cleansing tide.

No other hope I find, no joy,
No peace for me, aside
From that dear secret place of grace,
The cross on which Christ died!

-poem by Martha Snell Nicholson

Granny To The Rescue Once Again!!! (This time to protect us against frowns)

Okay, I thought y'all might like a video of Granny Reccu!! After all, at least a few of you are her grandchildren! I have quite a few pictures and videos of her, and I thought this was a good one, and not that embarassing for her. In this video we are playing a board game called Quelf, and our happy Granny is playing her card. (We weren't allowed to know what she was doing.)

Once again she keeps us all entertained! You can't help but smile right along with her. :D

(sorry it's sideways again.)

Attack Of The Giant Zucchini

Everyone needs a two foot zucchini, right?! Somehow we always end up with one of these monsters, but this one is the biggest yet. Can anyone guess what we were eating for days?

Actually, what we make when we get one of these is.............Pumpkin Pie! Only we eliminate the pumpin and replace it with zucchini. The result? A pie that tastes just like pumpkin pie and looks only slightly paler. Crazy, but it is actually quite good.

Humphrey

Okay, you finally get to see a picture of little Humphrey. I never remembered to take a picture of him, so this is a little late. He is still a handsome little furball, even though he is getting big now. The first picture was actually taken when I was away from home, as I would never let the cat in my room. But my family apparently thought it would be funny to surprise me with this picture in the camera. If I had been home, little humph would have been learning how to fly (out the window.) Anyway, the picure ended up being the best one we had of him, so here it is.

Songs

Hey guys, I just put some new songs on the ipod, so make sure that you scroll through there and listen to them. One of them is a song we sang at CC Florence (Church On The Rock) last Sunday. It is called "Give Us Clean Hands", written by Charlie Hall. I love it; we should sing it at our church.

Three of them are Watermark songs that I had not heard before: Still and Holy Roar (I love those two), and Easter (which is Fairest Lord Jesus).

There are a couple more also, Sometimes by Step, Holy is the Lord, Walk Down this Mountain, and Great Light of the World.

So listen to them!

The Beauty Of God's Creation

Hi again! These are some more pics from our trip. We had a few nice sunsets on the trip, about which I was thrilled, to say the least. Here are the girls, out trying to find agates, even as it was getting dark. We all had lots of fun looking for agates and came back with some nice ones.
This is a shot from "the fort" (as all the retired folks call it, and go to surprisingly quite often.)
This, by the way, is called the Pacific Ocean. :)

(When I took this shot, I thought I was taking a video so that I could show you the awesome sound that the waves were making on all the little rocks, but later I realized I had only gotten a picture. The sound was unlike any I have ever heard.)

This is one of God's unfailingly new and beautiful paintings.

You know what I realized the other day? We were coming back from the trip, and we had a beautiful "California" sunset. (It was better than the ones we had in Oregon, I wish I had been able to get a good shot of it.)

I realized that there won't be any sunsets in heaven! At first I was shocked, and almost disappointed! But as I thought about it, I realized that we will have the most Beautiful Son of all, shining right before our very eyes, and His beauty will be so amazing and magnificent that these earthly sunsets will never even come to remembrance. All that we once thought was beautiful will be swallowed up in His beauty beyond compare.

"The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light , and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. It's gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be not night there). And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life."

Revelation 21:23-27

Let there be light

Here are some pictures from Oregon! This is the lighthouse that we went to: Yaquina Head. It is very near the condo that we stay at.
Here is the light...........
Here is a different shot........
Here I am in the top of the lighthouse.......(you can see all the land behind me through the windows.)
Way, way, way, down below my toes is a very cute little baby and her mother.

Those are just a few pictures from the trip. I will put some more later.

Just wait for the sunset pictures!

Knitting Time!

This is the sweater that I just finished! (except for the buttons, I still need to get those)

The pattern was invented by an english teacher, and let me tell you, it was a math nightmare!

I belive that I ended up knitting this sweater twice over with all the times that I had to rip out and get it right. But in the end it was a success and I was happy. Please DO NOT tell me that the colors are hippie colors. Thank you. I happen to like the colors as I was the one that picked them out. :)

This is a shot of the lower edge. It is called Fan and Feather, which I had never done before. I really liked it; I will have to make some more things with that stitch.

These are the fingerless gloves that I started months ago (and finished months ago), and I finally did the weaving of the seams and completed them. Sis was kind enough to wear them so that I could show you. :)

This is my project in the works right now. It is another toddler sized sweater (quicker to knit, and very cute--I had not made any kids sweaters untill recently, this will make three.) When I first saw the pattern I absolutely loved it. It uses three strands of lace-weight yarn at once (six on the ribbing), and alternates which colors are together so that the hues start dark at the bottom and work up to very light at the top. The ribbing includes all the colors and I will also be adding a button band on the front edge. So, that is my latest project---almost done!

Now this is one of my new inventions. (sorry the pic is sort of upside down, it still works) When I first heard that people could knit with plastic bags I was very excited (yipee! right?), but all that people really make are handbags (bags out of bags, lovely.) But I wanted something a little more exciting! Therefore I decided on the plastic bag flip-flops! This was my first attempt, and I admit I have not finished the match for this one, as I was not completely satisfied with it, but I will try again sometime when I get the motivation to go chop up more bags. Anyone recognize the bags? They are the ones from our CC bookstore! :) When someone would ask me what I was making when I was knitting this flip-flop I was quite embarrased, 'cause it seemed kind of a ridiculous idea. Oh well, they kinda worked out after all. Listen to this: my dad wantes me to make him ballet slipper style ones out of black trash bags so that he can have ultra-light shoes for backpacking (to have when he gets to camp)! It is going to be quite interesting trying to come up with a pattern, perhaps I will attempt it sometime.

Well, I hope this was not a complete bore to all of you non-knitters; I personally love this kind of stuff as you can see. Bye!