"Fear not, for I have redeemed you..."

I cannot decide if I really have no pain anymore, because the one first new chemo is so wonderful...OR I am taking the time-release pill to get rid of pain. I am sure it is the pill!Anyway, I really do not like taking medicine. I avoid it as much as possible, which many times I just have to do it. Well I am very thankful for the absence of pain on a daily basis!

I remembered a quilt we have that an elderly lady made us many years ago (she was probably about my age then...:-) She took scraps of fabric from my Mother in law, and my daughter and mine, scraps of dresses, table cloths, household fabrics, and when I look at this quilt I can remember each of us wearing a particular dress or skirt. Something not made to be special , just a four-patch quilt, but it is very special for memories.

I talked about Grandma and Grandpa being married in 1910, and I have a picture of each of them on that day. Wonder why they did not have a picture taken together? He is facing the camera, wearing a handsome suit, a white shirt and a dark bow tie. His hair was dark and parted down the middle. I can see many features of various family members who look like him, (maybe the shape of an eyebrow, an expression from his eyes...) Like John says, I love to look for family traits in each child, or family member.

Grandma was facing the side with a profile view. She did not have curly hair and so she wore fake curls tucked under her bonnet and hanging out the side. I still have these curls! She had a dress maybe silk, or pongee, with cutout neck and a sheer fabric set in this neck. There is a velvet ribbon high around her neck and she is wearing a gold cross. I never saw her wear a cross...wonder what happened to it. She told my sister that her hat was periwinkle blue, with red cherries to one side, then the curls hanging out the side. I wonder if she loved him. She waited four years to marry him, so maybe she was not sure. But as I have said, he told her every day of their lives that she was the most beautiful woman in the world! What is not to love!

Isaiah 43:1 continues, "I have summoned you by name; you are mine." How marvelous to belong to our Father, our God who knows us by name!