Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: Faith...Hope...and Love

Friday, February 13, 2009

Faith...Hope...and Love

Many thank yous to you all dear Friends for the sincere heartfelt comments received on my last post...It truly is such a blessing knowing that you are all out there with your support, including all the many wonderful quilting/sewing sites...everybody is doing what they can...the Spirit is so generous at times like this...

Words do seem inadequate at a time like this...but in a way these can be comforting...

And now these three remain...Faith...Hope...Love. But the greatest of these is Love...

Corinthians 13,13

12 comments:

Nat Palaskas said...: Dear Ingrid, Faith Hope and Love is so true. We are hanging on to it for dear life. Victorians are not out of danger from the fires yet. Quilting and friends are comforting and I am hanging on to both of those...! Love Natima; February 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Lurline said...: My sentiments exactly - big hugs to you, Dzintra♥; February 13, 2009 at 12:17 PM
ceecee said...: Dear D,
This is so devastating! I have been thinking of you, your family, and the many readers I have from Australia. I pray that you are all okay. I will be in touch soon.
Catherine x; February 13, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Remembering you all in our prayers.; February 13, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Julia said...: Dzintra it is so sad...We are all feeling their pain.
If only we could reach out to them all with big hugs.
Julia ♥; February 13, 2009 at 3:37 PM
a good yarn said...: Such a lovely sentiment and pretty wallhanging. Most appropriate given the circumstances.

Ann :); February 13, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Natalija said...: My thoughts are with you and the Australian people in these days.; February 13, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Simone de Klerk said...: Such a pretty wall hanging for this difficult period! I hope it gives all those victims a feeling of hope-love-faith!; February 14, 2009 at 1:10 AM
Vicki's Bit-o-earth said...: I feel so much for all of you. You're in my heart and prayers right now. I just watched the video clip of Sam the Koala. That small story made me that that some good can come of the worst of times. It touched me so much that we humans can and do connect with animals and eachother in times of great need. What a story, and I'm sure there are so many more like it. We will keep tuned. If there is anything we over here can do, let us know. In the meantime, we send our hearts.; February 14, 2009 at 7:43 AM
Micki said...: It's a gorgeous wall hanging and very heartfelt. Lovely work!
Micki; February 14, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Millie said...: Oh Dzintra, this was my gorgeous Dad's favourite passage from Corinthians! It has reminded me of the courageous way he lived his life, full of tenacity, good humour & abundant love. May our Victorian neighbours draw strength from those traits as well.
Millie ^_^; February 14, 2009 at 10:50 AM
The Pink Poodle said...: hi dzintra...YES it is just horrible..

BUT we can take comfort in us aussies are banding together...100 million dollars nearly raised in just under a week...from a pop of 20 mill...
NOT BAD...
WE are a GREAT nation...!!

xx andrea; February 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM

Welcome To My World

Hello, my name is Dzintra Ingrid ... have been known as Ingrid and since our Sea Change I have started to use Dzintra ... pronounced without the D ... (but still known as Ingrid, I know, it's confusing ...)

Welcome to my world ... a journal of our Sea Change ... Mum to three wonderful children ... bringing up a daughter with a disability and seeing life through her eyes ... being a new Nanna ... photos ... inspiring quotes ... taking on a cookery course ... the odd recipe ... and trying to get some stitching done amongst all this ...

Dedicated to Carers...

'Welcome to Holland'

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this ...

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Colosseum, Michelangelo's David - the gondolas of Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, 'Welcome to Holland'.

'Holland'? You say. 'What do you mean Holland? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy'.

But there has been a change in the flight plan. They have landed in Holland, and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, filthy place, full of famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while, you look around, and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips, Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they are all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, 'Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That is what I had planned'.

The pain of that will never go away, because the loss of a dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.

Written by Emily Perl Kingsley......Mother of a Child with a Disability

Kerri...

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sow;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war; and a time of peace.~

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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Friday, February 13, 2009

Faith...Hope...and Love

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