Dr. Living Stone, I presume?

September 10, 2009
** It's a two-post day! It's freaky quiet in this house with two kids at school all day. I have to go pick them up, but don't want to lose the post, so I will post it now, and add pictures when I get back. :)

Keelin has been working all summer, well, Candan too, for that matter, but mostly my crafty girl, on these perler bead projects. Have you ever seen them? You arrange little colored beads on these boards with tiny little pegs on them to hold all the beads together, and then you iron them. The plastic melts together and you take them off the board. She got a set for Christmas of 15,000 beads. Yes, 15,000.

She's made all kinds of animals: butterflies, frogs, fish.... My favorites are the scenes she's made from the big boards. One took her over a week to do. Keelin and I made a rockin' technicolor gecko together, but I can't find it to take its picture.

I was reading 1 Peter 2, and I don't know why, one of those God things where something just falls on you beautifully and like you've never read it before, though you must have...but verses 4-5 talk about us being living stones. Living stones... That whole start of the chapter is beautiful--we should long for the word that we should grow if we have tasted the kindness of the Lord. That we are precious in His sight...and as living stones we should allow ourselves to be built up as a spiritual house to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God.

The beads are like the same thing... they are precious in her sight, because with them she can build great things. The beads themselves become much more meaningful as a whole than on their own. They're all colored differently, and oh, how we sought some of those beads out to complete them just so... how precious were those everytime we found one that we needed! And really, the beads are much more beautiful when all put together. (they're pretty useless actually on their own, and oh, they hurt to step on.)

As His precious living stones, we should long to seek His word, long to be together, that we be built into something more beautiful than ourselves for His glory and His purpose, because we have tasted of the kindness of the Lord.

2like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, 3if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 4And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,
5you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:2-5