Quilted with love!
Welcome if you have found this page then you are one of less than 100 people to have found one of our lost special quilted hearts. Our kids have been working on these hearts for months in their sewing class. These hearts incorporate a lot of sewing techniques, but their main purpose was to be a source of encouragement for YOU!
Have you ever lost something dear to you? Maybe a household item you accidentally set down in the wrong place, a piece of jewelry, money you name it. The search just about drives you bonkers. You rejoice when the missing item is found but what about when it isn't do you continue looking or just let it be? Items are important but people matter so much more. That is how Jesus feels about you! YOUR life matters to Him.
In Matthew 18:12-14 Jesus tells His followers the parable of the lost sheep.
"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish."
This famous parable about a good shepherd leaving his flock of ninety-nine to go searching for the one represents Jesus pursuing us! We are that lost sheep. This one sheep is a wanderer. Mayhe once was faithfully following the shepherd then got distracted. Maybe the sheep saw something enticing that turned out to be really bad for it, but the little sheep felt too far gone. Maybe he or she just didn't fully know if this shepherd would really protect it. Sheep tend to wander. But, the shepherd keeps after them. Seems kind of silly, you have ninety-nine sheep. It would have been a risk for the shepherd. Have you seen where shepherds lived? Being a shepherd wasn't easy. The terrain was often steep along cliffs, there were wild animals always lurking on the prowl and unpredictable weather. Yet the shepherd didn't give up. He looked and looked, braving everything because that sheep mattered. And when He finds the wanderinsheep He's overcome by joy.
That lost sheep represents you and I. No matter how "far" you've strayed. Jesus is relentlessly pursing YOU! You see because Hecares about everyone He has made. No one person is better than the next. We all matter.
It is not an accident YOU found one of our hearts. We believe in God moments. Those little ways the God of the universe uses the simplest of things to say YOU are not an accident. No matter how you came into this world God put YOU here on purpose with a purpose. The Bible tells us in Psalm 139:13-14 that God knit you together in your mother's womb. Every piece of you was on purpose! That's hard to remember when everything around us says otherwise, but it's true! You weren't a mistake from the beginning and you certainly aren't now. So God created you on purpose for a purpose.
We want you to know we are praying for YOU. Do you have anyone praying for you? Prayer is important. Life is too hard to go at it alone. But we'd like to know specifics. How are YOU doing? How is your health? How is your job? Your family? How's your faith? Do you need to work out some things with God. We are here to help (we mean that!) so get in touch with us. We'd love to meet you.
