Garden Chef's Needle and Pen

It's been a week and one day since my last post . I featured in that post a poem from Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional . Photo from Google Today, I'm posting another poem from the same devotional again. This time, a poem by Miss Ophelia G. Browning . Photo from Google Unanswered yet the prayer your lips have pleaded In agony of heart these many years? Does faith begin to fail? Is hope departing? And think you all in vain those falling tears? Say not the Father hath not heard your prayer; You shall have your desire sometime, somewhere. Unanswered yet? Nay do not say ungranted; Perhaps your work is not yet wholly done. The work began when first your prayer was uttered, And God will finish what He has begun. If you will keep the incense burning there, His glory you shall see sometime, somewhere. Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered, Her feet are firmly planted on the Rock; Amid the wildest storms she stands u...

 I just find this poem by Madame Guyon beautiful! One of my favorites... featured in today's Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional ... A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air, And in my cage I sit and sing To Him who placed me there; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleaseth Thee. My cage confines me round, Abroad I cannot fly, But though my wing is closely bound, My soul is at liberty; For prison walls cannot control The flight, the freedom of the soul. From Google As the bird in this cage, I dare you be a prisoner. Be one, that is, in Christ Jesus! For Ephesians 4:1 says, "As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received." Happy weekend everyone!

Have you any crochet project that led you into a spiritual journey in the making? I do!   Crocheting the Business Card Sleeve from Crochet Spot gave me a blessed opportunity of going on a meditative pilgrimage back to Old Testament times.  Business Card Sleeve from Crochet Spot   How to crochet on the opposite side of the chain is a special feature in the Business Card Sleeve pattern that taught me the steps of going round and round until the finishing off rather than turning around each time to crochet towards the other end. The tutorial was reader-friendly and the steps real easy to follow. My own version of the Business Card Sleeve in the making Following the instructions as I worked on, no matter how simple it may have seemed, caused me to take a glimpse of the Israelites'  plight as they traveled 40 long years from Egypt to Canaan (God's promised land) when such a journey allegedly wouldn't have taken them more than 11 days. This is...