Hello again,
Father's Day is just around the corner. As I was busy making my Father's Day cards and gifts, I realized I was using Double Sided Tape a lot. As a matter of fact, every craft you see included in this blog post required Double Sided Tape to make.
Every occasion/holiday gives us more reason to make a homemade card or gift. When we were in school our teachers encouraged us to use our creativity to craft a card or gift to bring home. No matter how unhappy I was with how my card/gift/writing turned out, my Mom and Dad embraced it like it was a Michael Angelo painting. No wonder I grew up continuing the tradition through my adult life.
Father's Day is just around the corner. As I was busy making my Father's Day cards and gifts, I realized I was using Double Sided Tape a lot. As a matter of fact, every craft you see included in this blog post required Double Sided Tape to make.
Every occasion/holiday gives us more reason to make a homemade card or gift. When we were in school our teachers encouraged us to use our creativity to craft a card or gift to bring home. No matter how unhappy I was with how my card/gift/writing turned out, my Mom and Dad embraced it like it was a Michael Angelo painting. No wonder I grew up continuing the tradition through my adult life.
As you can guess, I have a really great family and two really amazing parents. Why? I don't know but I will say I am extremely thankful. The past 2 years were especially hard for my family- especially my parents. It's still hard. Any day now things could change or not. Life is mysterious that way. Thank God it is God who is always in control not people. His plan is way over my head but His heart- wow! His Sovereignty is never apart from His Goodness. His love is rich and pure and can not be measured. It is the thread in and through every detail of our lives whether we can understand His plan or not. The best thing we can do to keep joy in the journey is to keep the eyes of our faith focused on Who God is and who He says we are to Him as written in the Bible. Our faith and trust in God will grow the more we hear and read His Word, the Bible. He is our strength and reason to keep going.
In that father's day is coming up, once again I was faced with a desire to make homemade gifts and cards. The cards and original prose come easy these days but the gifts require much more time and thought. I decided to make a house made of card stock and embellished with a foam roof with pictures of all the family in every window, foam trees, and other embellishments.
Why a house? Besides the other difficulties Mom and Dad faced this year, Mom and Dad, through no fault of their own, lost their home this past year. I wish I had a home I could give them, was/is the cry of my heart and it inspired my Father's Day gift to my Dad.
Mom and Dad are so grateful for the space they share temporally but I can't help but see the brokenness in my Dad's eyes sometimes. He wouldn't be human if he didn't feel loss. Loving my Mom and Dad as I do makes my heart crumble feeling it too. I can just imagine how hard it is for my Dad, at this stage of his life to not have his own space with my Mom.
Why a house? Besides the other difficulties Mom and Dad faced this year, Mom and Dad, through no fault of their own, lost their home this past year. I wish I had a home I could give them, was/is the cry of my heart and it inspired my Father's Day gift to my Dad.
Mom and Dad are so grateful for the space they share temporally but I can't help but see the brokenness in my Dad's eyes sometimes. He wouldn't be human if he didn't feel loss. Loving my Mom and Dad as I do makes my heart crumble feeling it too. I can just imagine how hard it is for my Dad, at this stage of his life to not have his own space with my Mom.
As a family we continue to try all avenues in search for a place my parents can call home. God is so good and faithful.
As we wait, pray and search together, our family grows closer, our love grows deeper and our life richer in our faith and trust in God.
As I crafted this house, I prayed God would use the paper house to minister His love and comfort to Mom and Dad every time they looked at it.
Happy Father's Day Dad. I love you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Happy Father's Day to all Dad's! May your home be made rich with God's love, comfort, courage and hope.
I hope you enjoyed this personal post and it inspired you to create a homemade gift for your Dad.
Until next time
Judy
As we wait, pray and search together, our family grows closer, our love grows deeper and our life richer in our faith and trust in God.
As I crafted this house, I prayed God would use the paper house to minister His love and comfort to Mom and Dad every time they looked at it.
Happy Father's Day Dad. I love you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Happy Father's Day to all Dad's! May your home be made rich with God's love, comfort, courage and hope.
I hope you enjoyed this personal post and it inspired you to create a homemade gift for your Dad.
Until next time
Judy