Yes, I'm too cheap to fork over hard-earned cash for something that appears in a picture, gets flung on a table, and, if it's lucky, gets perched in a car dashboard for a while.
So I head out on my lunch break to JoAnn Fabrics for a little "something more" to arrange in a corsage and boutineer.
When I walked through the door and step my foot inside, it happens once again. I.believe.I.am.crafty!
But here's the reality, I'm really not very crafty at all. I worry too much about angles, and matching, and being even. I can barely run a sewing machine. I burn my hands EVERYTIME I use a glue gun! If I don't have a picture of what it's supposed to finally look like, I can't wrap my mind around it.
But when I walk around in the store and see the friendly associates in their crisp aprons cutting fabric, and I smell all the crafty smells. When I see the kits hanging on display that promise, "Simple" & "Easy", I get so excited and start believing that maybe in fact I am A CRAFTER!
What the Holy Spirit spoke to me was this: "Am I spending my time with people who are an encouragement to my faith? Am I spending time with those who stoke my excitement to learn more about who I am through Jesus? Am I setting my foot in places where I am encouraged to stretch myself in the gifts that God has given me?"
42 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper[i]), and to prayer.Acts 2:42
Gotta love those believers in the early Acts church. I have to believe that along with learning, fellowship, meals and prayer they also encouraged one another.
Don't waste precious time with people who tear you down. Chose to be with those who will lift you up, so that in turn, you can lift up others.
Hmmm, maybe I could make some sort of crafty wall hanging with that saying on it.....or not.
:D
Susan
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