Jewells of Thought

Honestly I can’t really remember if this happened late in December or early this year. The timing doesn’t really matter though. What truly matters is that a lot was going on family wise in my family and in my church families.

Sickness, surgery and death had taken place and it was a difficult time. My family saw it unfortunately while my church family was experiencing things in real time. A death took place on Thursday and a friend went into the hospital sometime that day while my cousin had already been in the hospital ironically down in Evansville. Different hospitals but one lived down south and the other was my neighbor. Not to mention a death just a week before all of this happened.

It was quite a bit for all of us to digest. Unfortunately technology was working in one case and didn’t seem to be enough in the other case. Thank God both loved ones have had time to heal, but it was a process for both not usually down that long for any illness.

All of this to say that a couple of weeks after one of those surgeries Mom and I sent our neighbor some jello and was able to talk with the couple. They are the couple who had generously accepted the task of driving me to church and helped introduce me to our Sunday School last year. It was a big blessing that I had not made the effort to begin as of that time. I am indebted to them for forcing me to church a little earlier to go it was what I needed.

When Mom and I brought the jello we thought it would be in and out. Of course that never works out the way you think it will. We actually stayed nearly 45 minutes I think conversing. Mom was talking with him and I with her. Somehow we got into her being into Genealogy lately and she mentioned having her Great-Grandparents pillows. I think that’s what she said. They were “His/Hers” pillows. Once she said that a lightbulb flicked for me. I knew a cousin was getting married in March and the idea of a His/Hers sassy pillow set sounded fresh and fun and something I had never tried to do before.

It was so much fun thinking of ideas, but I did go through some thoughts and had to redo some thinking. It took a little longer to make this first pillow set because I found all my snafus that would help this second set maybe a better pillow set because of all my trials and errors. It has been quite an experience. A good one though. A neat challenge that has been met because of the material I already had given to me and the favorite colors of the bride and groom. Whether it is one color they both like or one for each of them.

This has been my silver lining from that sadness and depressing time. Thankfully Spring has come and Summer is on its way. A lot has changed since earlier this year and now we can enjoy that this is why God gives us our churches and our church families, communities to help us to lean together in those dark times when it’s needed most.

I’m still working on the second set, but it’s getting there slowly. I like how it’s coming out.