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The Crucifixion

JESUS DEATH - 60 SECONDS ~~~
For the next 60 seconds, set aside whatever you're doing and take this opportunity! Let's see if Satan can stop this...
THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to the death penalty. At the time crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst criminals condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus, for unlike other criminals condemned to death by crucifixion Jesus was nailed to the cross by His hands and feet, rather than tied... Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long. The nails were driven into His wrist. Not into His palms as is commonly portrayed. There's a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder.
The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the Wrist, that tendon would tear and break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support himself, so that He could breathe.
Both of His feet were nailed together. Thus He was forced to support Himself on the single nail that impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could not support himself with His legs for long because of the pain, so He was forced to alternate between arching His back and using his legs just to continue to breath.
Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage. Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours. Yes, over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of suffering? A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water from his wounds.
From common images we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side...
But do we remember the many wounds made to his body. A hammer driving large nails through the wrists, the feet overlapped and a nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear.
And... before the nails and the spear, Jesus was whipped and beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face.
The crown of thorns (two to three inch thorns) cut deeply into His scalp. Most men would not have survived this torture. " He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds.
The human adult body contains about 5 liters (just over a gallon) of blood. Jesus poured all 5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His body; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His chest..
All these without mentioning the humiliation He passed after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones (the cross beam was almost 30 kg of weight, to which His hands were nailed).
Jesus had to endure this experience, so that you may have free access to God. So that your sins can be "washed" away. All of them, with no exception!
Don't ignore this.
JESUS CHRIST DIED...FOR YOU!

Handmade

I found this cute quote somewhere, have no idea who said it but I thought about it and it really sums it all up.


When I give to you what I make with my hands
I share with you my heart.

Embroidery machine

Since my embroidery machine and I have become friends, I have decided to try making some things that I used to make without using the embroidery machine.
The first thing on that list was mending my pants...looks so much better to have something pretty there instead of a regular patch.
The next thing on my list was making postcards.
I learned how to make them several years ago, but never embroidered on them before.
The trick is to find a design that will fit the 4 x 6 inch card.

Spring Forward...................

I love the weekend when daylight savings begins....first I get more daylight in the evenings, and I get more done it seems. Funny how darkness, and not the actual time makes me feel it is later than it actually is.

The other thing I like about daylight savings time is, Sunday morning church service....You can tell the people who forgot to set their clocks, they are arriving as the rest of us are leaving.

I don't mind getting up in the dark, as I do not get up that early, and when I do get up it is already light...But OH how I LOVE having that feeling that the days have gotten longer and I can work so much later than I used to. And the sunlight is out longer, I love the sunlight it is so energizing.

Well here it is the middle of winter and it is 52 degrees outside! If there were leaves on the trees, I would think it was the beginning of spring.
It is supposed to be mild all week...I just hate to think of when spring will actually get here, since it does not look as if winter has....Or wait!, maybe those 2 weeks of cold were winter! and now we are headed into spring!

This is one of my cherished possessions....I wonder what it could tell me if it could talk...I wonder what adventures it has been on.....I wonder if all it's journeys were happy occasions, or were some of them sad?
If it were a gift as opposed to a purchase, and if it was a gift who was the gift from?
All I really know about it was that it belonged to my Mom....
It's last purpose was to store my Mom's yarn in, now that she is gone and the suitcase has come to live with me........I use it to store my rug hooking supplies in..
Whenever I see it I think of her, and wonder what adventures they were on together................

The Evolution of our Christmas Tree

Outside our dining room window is a big tree. this year we put a squirrel feeder there so we have something fun to watch while having morning coffee, There is Mr/Mrs squirrel on top of the feeder eating a piece of corn.

Down on the ground next to the tree is a bunny cleaning up the pieces of corn that the squirrels have dropped. This all takes place about 10 feet from our house. If we talk while having coffee, they hear us and run away.

If you look really close, you can see Mr/Mrs squirrel in the big glass jar having breakfast. Sometimes when the corn is all gone, they will sit in the jar when the sun is out and sun themselves. They are so fun to watch.

Here is a bunny under the feeder on the tree...he seems to be waiting for more corn to fall as the squirrels go in and out of the feeder above him. You can see the corn on the ground in my flowerbed that the squirrels have dropped.