"Sit & Sew" Janice Savoy

Spiritual - During Lent, it is a good time to be reminded of the value of suffering.  If Jesus, the Teacher of truth, life, and our souls, commends suffering to us, it must be because it contains a great treasure.  Jesus, who willingly embraced suffering, offers it to us, and invites us to esteem and love it,  must have been obedient to it because of  a superior good that cannot be attained by any other means.  The sufferings of humanity is the direct outcome of original sin from the disobedience of our first parents and actual sins.  "Yet the Church chants: O happy fault!  Why?  ...because  the infinite love of God transforms everything and draws from the double evil of sin and suffering the great good of the redemption of the human race." As Christians we must not consider pain only as a disagreeable burden from which we naturally recoil, but must see in it much more - a means of redemption and sanctification.  Divine Intimacy

                                                                                Sewing -  Janice loves to sew, drive her convertible, and try new things - like flying lessons.  She also loves garage sales   She found a wonderful second hand Singer to keep at SewHealing for Tuesday nights for $25!  Sometimes she challenges me more than I  challenge her. She does not use only one pattern when she sews...she combines them or tries to copy pictures using several patterns from her stash. I'm biting my nails waiting to see what she'll bring each each week for us to work on. She is a hoot!  Janice has one thing in common with all of us...she loves her grandchildren and enjoys sewing for them.