What A Challenging Week I Had, It All Started With The Concept Of Quilling. Are You Familiar With Quilling? Let Me Explain About The Weeks Experience.-

I lived a week filled with challenges last week. Let me explain...It all started last Sunday. I noticed a Christmas card that was designed with quilling technique and I looked at the price of the card and said to someone I could make that I want to learn quilling. Keep that in mind because quilling doesn't come into play until later that week.
On Monday I received the 2nd dose of the shingles vaccine and the worst I expected to happen was a sore arm where the shot was administered. The arm really was not sore, not like the last time I received the shot. I forgot to read the full list of side effects though. I ended up getting chills and a fever of 100 degrees. That came into play the next day on Tuesday. The fever broke and I believe I was ok that night when I went to bed for the evening. Wednesday comes along and I hear a word that did not agree with my spirit. I labor over this word for it is troubling to me. I feel Holy Spirit telling me to cry out about what is on my heart and share it in the spirit realm if that makes sense. I begin to cry like a deep cry and ask if anyone is going to go and reel them is so to speak as an accountability concern. In my spirit I hear that they have already been sat down before in regard to this word. The next thing I am sharing about how I wanted to quit writing and run. You see, when I am close to a break through or a move of God in my life my old pattern is to run. I do not mean putting on a pair of running shoes and running around the neighborhood. My version of running is that it gets to be a bit too much and I want to revert to wanting to go back home where it was safe for me. I had the large body of water that I could go sit by and write and talk to Holy Spirit there. I also had the freedom of seeing eagles soaring in the sky. To me that is safe. I tend to whine a bit at Holy Spirit when things have been promised to me almost 22 years ago and I see them not in the natural but very much so in the spiritual realm that is. When I seek Holy Spirit I hear the word "TRUST." I then asked forgiveness of my whining and said I will continue to trust. Something spectacular happened to me that night after this experience...I felt incredible peace come over me and I felt heat coming forth from the souls of my feet and I slept wonderful that night.
Onto Thursday, while at work I am looking at my computer screen and I see an orange dot then the next thing I know it seemed to be coming from my right eye I started to see a series of zig zag shapes moving. They were black, blue and a silver color. Even when I shut my eyes I was able to see them moving. They were small in size at first then they grew in size and then seized. There was not pain associated with it. My co-worker said to take a break from looking at the computer screens and I did. I even asked this co-worker do you think it was a side effect from the vaccine. They said probably not. Friday and part of Saturday all of a sudden my car locks started acting up and like I would be driving and the caution lights would go on once or twice and that was it. I then switched ignition fabs and maybe that was the problem. It was fine today until...I was working on quilling this morning and did ironing also before church. While I was quilling I thought I felt something fall in my eye but I thought to myself that is impossible that did not happen. So I am getting ready for church today and when I look in the mirror I see this big red blob in my eye. I am thinking now Oh My but I know to still go to church and worship God. I went to church with semi-make up on just not eye make up. As I am in church I feel the nudge of Holy Spirit to go to the altar and worship with my percussion instruments this time. I hesitated at first then He kept showing me the very spot to stand and I did. When I am in worship I just really commune with Jesus. It is as if the instruments in my hands are just there being played via an open vessel. At times I hear how to strike the rain stick music coming forth along with the little percussion shaker instruments I have. I can hear what it is suppose to do. At times I am with the beat of the music playing. At other times I will sense just a shake at a certain time or a certain way to bring forth the music from them also. Today, this was the second time I was shown how to do this. It is as though I raise the rain stick up in the air and with my hand I hold it up and move it in a circular motion. Did I tell you I am a worshiper? I am.That is who I am and that is a part of me. A gift freely given to me and I freely give the gift back to the Lord when I worship Him.
I use to work for Estee Lauder and I know how to apply make up and things like that. I was trained by the best, I truly was. So for me to go to church without full makeup presentation is a lesson in humility. Holy Spirit reminds me that I go to worship Him not man or man's approval.
One day during this past week a song I played in repeat mode in the car was by Rita Springer that ministered to me in a mighty big way.
All's well ends well. I now have a brisket of beef in the oven and I will make mashed potatoes. I thought for a brief moment just boil the potatoes for the mashed potatoes and then I thought no, I have an electric pressure cooker and that truly is the only way to make mashed potatoes. You do not boil out the potato flavor and you actually taste the flavor of the potatoes when you use the electric pressure cooker. I like to add garlic or chunky garlic paste while they are cooking to infuse that flavor in them.
So if you should receive a card from me and you see a quilling design incorporated in the card you will know I made the design.
Back to last Sunday. When the idea was initiated about quilling Holy Spirit knew I would need it the later part of the week. I have found that instead of running when I get the urge to run back to what is comfortable for me I then usually take on some sort of creative project and that fills the void for me. Thank you Holy Spirit for loving me like you do and looking out for me too. What I am disappointed about today is that I was going to try to go to a church service this afternoon where Holy Spirit is flowing and I just did not want to go with this red blob thing in my eye. I believe it is a broken blood vessel is what I have been told. Hey I was not at a total loss though, I viewed the service live streaming so God did take care of me He ALWAYS does. Oh, did I tell you this? It feels really good to be back writing again and thank you for your prayers for they really did work with me not having a sore arm from the vaccine shot.
Quilling pictures. Now do not be critical I only started doing this the other day ok.

Look at the three flowers on top they are resting on a rainbow I made behind them. The pink flower is suppose to be a tulip but I wanted to see what it would look like if I added two green marquis designs on the bottom.

I thought it was titled, If You Say Go" by Rita Springer