Do Everything In Awareness of Whose You Are

This morning it was like I'd opened a whole new book when I opened my NIV scriptures and my "Jesus Calling," devotional book.  Days like this are a treasure to me.  You see I've been arguing with myself that I just don't matter at all, no one cares, blah, blah, blah, ad finium and ad nauseum.  I mean we even bore ourselves to death when we do that, let alone everyone else.

And then I rewrote, paraphrased, my lessons for today.  From my journal they read verbateum: "Do everything, --like eating, Mary -- in awareness of My Presence with you, says God.  I need to allow God into every aspect of my life, collaborating with God in everything, moment by moment."

My next devo I opened was paraphrased by me to read:  I am to abide in Him, not running from challenges and not turning from Him.  I have His Spirit to help me and I'm reminded to be the branch and to be branching because I'm not the Vine and being a vine isn't my job.  How often have I tried to be the Vine or tell the Vine what to do when I'm the branch!

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And now a few days later I can only see that I've not posted this yet.  Argh!  Below is a photo of the wonderful spinning wheel I'm borrowing and one of the yarns I'm working on.  Sure goes faster that way.  This is Merino wool, silk and alpaca and angora.

And what is on that wheel today is:

This is a Merino wool and Tencel fiber so very shiny.  Almost done with it too.

This is the kitty who has grown out enough hair on her ruff to not look quite so ridiculous.  She and I are both getting used to it and I have a photo to show how awkward she feels without her ruff.   Hmmmm, maybe awkward isn't quite the word!!!!   She's just gotten up from being stretched out on the floor for 28 minutes and gone to the couch.  She likes to rest against the old pillow!  I've hated that pillow forever and the kitty has to like it.  Go figure!

New Fingerless Mitts

At last they are done and up on Ravelry Fingerless Mitts Group as well as projects on Ravelry and here.  I used the Noro yarn I'd bought at the end of March and it is just an odd sort of yarn in my mind.  I'm not sure what all the hullabaloo is about over this yarn, but in the knitting world there are groups just for this yarn.

I started the mitts on one size needles and then took out 16 stitches on the palm side since I wanted the whole pattern to show on the one side.  I still wasn't content with the fit after a few rows and just before the colors changed in the yarn, I switched to a smaller one for needles.  A 2.75 in U. S. standards.  They looked pretty odd on the needles, but I soldered on and when it was finished  the fit was just right.  Loose where I wanted them to be and slightly snug where I wanted them to be.  So for once my lazy solution worked as usually this would be so obvious I'd have to rip it out and start over.  I was glad I didn't have to.   These mitts still haven't been washed or blocked, but here they are.

The colors in real life are closer to the enhanced photo at the top of the photos, so I hope you can see the difference.   All of this is from the same yarn bundle and I knit them with the magic loop method two at a time.  Used the skein inside for mitten one, and the outside of the other mitten.  Therefore the different color sequence as well.   Now to get caught up with my artist's journal and add the parts of the devotions that really spoke to me today.