Legend of the Sand Dollar

Thank you thank you for your prayers for William, he slept through the night (although I woke up to check on him, old habits...!) and has been fever free ALL day, praise the Lord! We were even able to go out and do a few errands and get his hair cut, he looks so cute.
I have not gotten to stamp yet, but one project I have in mind involves my sand dollar, I thought in the meantime I'd share this little poem about the symbolism of a sand dollar's markings I came across while working on my set, you may have heard it before, (and might not ever think of them the same way again...) Author is unknown...



THERE'S A PRETTY LITTLE LEGEND

THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TELL

OF THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF JESUS

FOUND IN THIS LOWLY SHELL


IF YOU EXAMINE CLOSELY

YOU'LL SEE THAT YOU FIND HERE

FOUR NAIL HOLES AND A FIFTH ONE

MADE BY A ROMAN'S SPEAR



ON ONE SIDE THE EASTER LILY

ITS CENTER IS THE STAR

THAT APPEARED UNTO THE SHEPHERDS

AND LED THEM FROM AFAR


THE CHRISTMAS POINSETTIA

ETCHED ON THE OTHER SIDE

REMINDS US OF HIS BIRTHDAY

OUR HAPPY CHRISTMASTIDE


NOW BREAK THE CENTER OPEN

AND HERE YOU WILL RELEASE

THE FIVE WHITE DOVES AWAITING

TO SPREAD GOOD WILL AND PEACE

THIS SIMPLE LITTLE SYMBOL

CHRIST LEFT FOR YOU AND ME

TO HELP US SPREAD HIS GOSPEL

THROUGH ALL ETERNITY

I wasn't sure really sure about the star and five doves part until I found this cool image (click that for link to the photo!) showing how the pieces break apart, isn't that pretty? Anyway, thought this could be something you could print out to go with the image on a card, bookmark or project, just a thought... :) (it definitely wouldn't fit in the set LOL!)

I am feeling good today, too! and a special treat, my friend invited me to go to the opera with her tonight, her husband couldn't use their tickets tonight so I get a little break! :) Have a great evening, thank you for checking in!!

William

If you could please lift up some prayers for my little William, he has been running a fever for three days. :( He's normally at school for a few hours on Mondays and Tuesdays, but hasn't been so I am behind on my crafting, although I'm "crafting in my mind" and have a few specific projects planned for when he is better.Here is a picture of him I took on Sunday, just a few hours before he started running his fever. We were out letter boxing and he found his own treasure floating on the river, a stargazer lily (just the bloom, no stem), it was wet but the delicate petals were perfect and smelled heavenly! I can only imagine it came from a wedding or something that happened earlier that day somewhere upstream and floated down our way... He was SO excited to bring it home and show his daddy..and then a big DOG came over and ATE it, right out of his hand! :( (Owner did not apologize... sniff) Poor little guy was heart broken, I'm so glad I at least got a pic before that happened.

We'll be going to the doctor tomorrow if he hasn't improved, I'll keep you posted! Thank you for your prayers, and if you could pray the rest of our family can stay healthy after this (I'm not feeling the best today, but hoping it's just lack of sleep the past few nights from sitting up with him... is it hot in here? yikes! ugh!!), I'd so appreciate it!