I'm taking an online scrapbooking class right now and it is called the Mother LOAD with LOAD meaning creating a LayOut A Day for 26 days (yes, I'm insane). So far have made all but 2 days and have actually made those up on another day.
The prompt for today's layout was Ritual. I had had this picture of Dad and Bailee reading the bible in a hotel room in Colorado printed for more than a year and just hadn't scrapped it yet. The ritual prompt indeed prompted me to think about Dad and his Sunday School lessons. The work he put into them in the front bedroom. Sitting. Poring over reference books so he could elaborate all the points he wanted/needed to. Lisa and I used to joke that he should have been a preacher. (Except he wouldn't have ended in time for the Cowboy games and would have frustrated his congregation!)
Dad always had a great memory. He could repeat any joke he ever heard. The words to goofy country songs. And of course, an appropriate scripture when the situation called for it. When I put together the 100 Wishes Quilt for Bailee, Dad provided fabric (ok, Mom did that part) but he provided the scripture.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb; I praise you because I'm fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful, I know that full well;
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139: 13-16
Another one of his lessons.
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