Merry Christmas to one and all. It is a bit of a different Christmas around here as we have no family or friends visiting. No huge festive dinner in to oven and no gifts under the tree to distribute to one and all. But none the less it is Christmas Morning, the celebration of the birth of Christ. We did get to see our Grandson the other day. He drove over from Chicago to visit each family member who lives on this end of the state. He was alone, but at least we got to see him and spend some time with him. The rest of the family, at least one person in the household has had COVID and I am not going to risk any chance on coming down with it. Christmas doesn't need a crowd to be joyous - it just needs my joyous heart.
This week I made the 15th block in my Bible Sampler Quilt. The Story is Beautiful Sarai from Genesis 12:8-12. Abram, for some reason heads to Egypt, then at the last minute realizes that the Egyptians might kill him and take his beautiful wife, Sarai. He tells her to say she is his sister to protect him. But what about her - that lie makes her more vulnerable. We just can't seem to learn to trust in God - This was God's plan for Abram to build a people and a country and he can't do it with Abram dead and Sarai a concubine of the Pharaoh. At any rate - God intervenes and teaches Abram another lesson in trust and obedience.
The name of the block is Wonders of Egypt. It was partially paper pieced with a lot of Y seams. I think this is all preparing me for another quilt I'm working on that will have a LOT of Y seams.
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