Mary’s Monday Morning Musings to Quilt Encouragement Curious Facts about the Bible (Taken from an old newspaper clipping found in an old family Bible.) A prisoner kept in solitary confinement was given a Bible. During a 3-year study, he come up with the following facts: The Bible contains 8,586,489 letters, 773,692 words, 31,174 verses, 1,180

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Puzzling Asked to stay home as a way to stem the spread of the Coronavirus, we used the unusual free time to put together two 1,000-piece puzzles. We’d had them for a long time but never took time to put them together. We liked the pictures so we kept

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Violence   Hearts break as we watch our televisions. Grief envelops us at the sight of a person taking another’s life right there on the television screen before our eyes. Other lives are lost in the uncontrolled anger that follows. People are seriously injured. We weep with the man

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Dreaded Task Beside staying well, thank you, God, I’ve discovered one unexpected benefit of this “Shelter in Place” we’re enduring. We finally summoned up the gumption to tackle the many boxes of picture slides my father took during the later half of his life. A daunting task. To date,

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Touch Small arms around your legs after a youngster rushes across the room to embrace you. The light touch of reassurance on my arm from a person I don’t see often but admire. The grip of a shoulder to bolster your knowing someone cares and stands with you. The

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Eyes A look into the eyes of someone can provide clues into that person’s mood of the moment and perhaps even reveal hints of heartaches or joys of the past. Sometimes, I wonder what it was like to have lived when Jesus walked the earth. Imagine the experience of

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement The Tulip Tree We picked up a beautiful flower lying with many other blooms on the ground in a wooded area. Craning our necks, we looked up to see a lovely mass of flowers blooming far above our heads on a Tulip Tree. What a spectacular sight. The tree

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Patches A rescued turtle living at the Virginia Living Museum is named Patches because the museum managed to patch his broken shell when he was brought to his new home. Unable to live in the wild any more, he enjoys good care, a healthy diet, and safety in the

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Sherbet The Virginia Living Museum found the perfect name for the unusually colored snake brought to the animal center. His name is Sherbet because of his orange and white coloring. The snake is actually quite pretty if you can use that word for a snake. He is a partial

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Faces Faces, the faces of people I love. Your faces that’s what I miss most in the midst of this Pandemic. I even miss encountering faces I don’t know at all, but had the privilege to see as I used to walk into a store or when I used