Emily Parke Chase
Back again? So glad you came! Here’s the eighth devotional in my series on woodworking. My cousin built a little desk made of solid cherry wood. Soft pine would have been easier to carve, but when a pen pressed down on the writing surface, a dent would remain. The cherry wood’s hard surface …
Read More Hard wood or soft…Here’s the seventh in my series of devotionals on woodworking. The rest of this series can be found on my author page! Enjoy! Every piece of wood has a will of its own, a unique grain. A skilled woodworker will examine a piece of wood carefully to ascertain the direction of the …
Read More A will of its own…Welcome back! Here is the sixth in my devotional series on woodworking. Enjoy! My cousin discovered a treasure. He found wonderful pieces of air-dried walnut wood lying forgotten in a neighbor’s barn. To the neighbor, the wood represented old logs with little value, but my cousin took them home, scraped off the bark …
Read More Hidden treasure…The fifth in my series of devotionals on woodworking. Keep coming back because there are lots more to come! My cousin presented one of his handmade salad bowls to me last Christmas. How I treasure it! Every time I take it down from the shelf and serve guests, I think of him. …
Read More Remembered with love…The fourth in my series of devotionals on woodworking…thanks for coming back! Years ago, my husband and I bought a table. To our inexperienced eyes it looked well made. We were told it was solid oak. But when my cousin David looked it over, he pointed out that while the chairs were …
Read More Solid to the core…Here’s the third in my current series of devotionals on woodworking. Keep coming back as I’ll be posting a new thought each week! Where others are talented with tools, I am hopeless when it comes to working with wood. I have no patience or skills. Years ago, I tried to make a …
Read More Created with a purpose…Here is the second of the new series of devotionals on woodworking. Enjoy! My cousin David is a woodworker, so one day when he came to visit, I took him to our local library so he could see samples of the woodworking techniques of a master craftsman named Moses Ransom. Ransom designed complex …
Read More Designer labels…This blog entry is the start of a new devotional series for my readers. I wrote the devotionals some years ago about my cousin and his woodworking hobby. My cousin now resides in a dementia unit at a nearby nursing home where I am able to visit weekly. I still pray for him and …
Read More Chips of WisdomHappy New Year! We’ve just said goodbye to all our grandkids who were visiting from out of state. How they have grown and changed over the past year! Some have learned to read. Younger ones are now potty-trained. Others are taller. It is easy to see how they have matured. Do you ever wonder how …
Read More Setting Goals for the New Year!This is the last day of these Advent devotionals for 2012. For us, Advent has ended. The joy of Christmas is at hand. When I first began organizing these thoughts and listing the emotions of Mary, my plan was to have them crescendo and end on the note of joy. But as God …
Read More Advent 2012 – Day 24