I've been wanting to share with you all a little project that has been keeping me busy these last few months. So here we go.
Last year I saw an image on Facebook it said "do you remember when we used to say brb on msn messenger? We don't say brb anymore. We live here now"
I felt those words cut through me like a hot blade. It was so convicting! I mean that last bit though- "we live here now." I couldn't help but think about how I don't leave a room without my phone coming with me. About all the mindless scrolling I do after the kids go to sleep or worse while I'm meant to be spending time with my children. How I can feel so good about my day, go on social media, see one tiny comment and feel terrible. Don't get me wrong I definitely think social media has a place in our lives but the balance just seemed way off to me.
Since the start of the year our family has been through a few changes. Changes that have left me shaken and disoriented. This plus certain things I saw on social media got my head spinning and I knew I had to regroup and ground myself.
I stood in my kitchen one day talking to God telling him that I needed to de-clutter my mind. I needed to stop getting bogged down by the unnecessary but instead focus on what is important. And I needed him to show me how I could do that. I looked over to our china cabinet. There beside our unity candles from our wedding lay a woven rope. An analogy our pastor used at our wedding was about the strength in the three-fold cord. It all became so clear.
My marriage, my children, my walk with God. Three roles in my life where I am completely irreplaceable. Three roles where there is no understudy, no 2IC, just me. It is my responsibility to cultivate, learn and do the very best that I can to fulfill these roles.
*There is no one in this world who can be a mother to Shyra-Beth and Jeremy
*There is no one in this world who can be a wife to Josiah
*And just like my love and relationship with each of my children are completely different and wonderful in their own individual way, there is no one in this world who can be the child of God that I am to my Heavenly Father
Right so I've identified what is important so where to from here? With a world full of distractions at my fingertips, what do I do? I have kept my hands busy!
I started crocheting during my pregnancy with Jeremy as it forced me to to set aside time to pray for him. What started off as attempting to make a bonnet for Jeremy so he couldn't pull it off his head, went on to making bonnets for friends as gifts. I'm not a very hands-on creative sort of person so I never thought they would be good enough to sell. But thanks to the encouragement of some wonderful people in my life here we are.
I'm passionate about putting kids, especially babies in natural fibers so most of my bonnets are made with 100% natural fibers and hand made to order. As I have the attention span of a gold fish I've recently also started making other bits and pieces so keep an eye out!
I still find it so bizarre that it is through crocheting I have been able to spend less time scrolling and more time praying. Less time viewing whats going on in other people's lives and more time being present in my own.
Yeah, that's my story. I've started a facebook and instagram page (@cordofthree_) so follow me if you knitwear is your type of thing!
