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a beautifully wrapped package and said i brought you this it was a book on the great cathedrals of europe i wasn t exactly sure why she had given it to me until i read her inscription with admiration for the greatness of what you are building when no one sees in the days ahead i would read no devour the book and i would discover what would become for me four like changing truths after which i could pattern my work 1 no one can say who built the great cathedrals we have no record of their names 2 these builders gave their whole lives for a work they would never see finished 3 they made great sacrifices and expected no credit 4 the passion of their building was fueled by their faith that the eyes of god saw everything a story of legend in the book told of a rich man who came to visit the cathedral while it was being built and he saw a workman carving a tiny bird on the inside of a beam he was puzzled and asked the man why are you spending so much time carving that bird into a beam that will be covered by the roof no one will ever see it and the workman replied because god sees i closed the book feeling the missing pieces fall into place it was almost as if i could hear god whispering to me i see you i see the sacrifices you make every day when no one around you does no act of kindness you ve done no sequin you ve sewn on no cupcake you baked no cub scout meeting no last minute errand is too small for me to notice and smile over you are building a great cathedral but you can t see right now what it will become i keep the right perspective when i see myself as a great builder as one of the people who show up at a job that they will never see finished to work on something that their name will never be on the writer of the book went so far as to say that no cathedrals could ever be built in our lifetime because there are so few people willing to sacrifice to that degree when i really think about it i don t want my son to tell the friend he s bring home from college for thanksgiving my mom gets up at 4 in the morning and bakes homemade pies and then she hand bastes a turkey for 3 hours and presses all the linens for the table that would be a monument to myself i just want him to want to come home and then if there is anything more to say to his friend he d say you re gonna love it there as mothers we are building great cathedrals we cannot be seen if we re doing it right and one day it is very possible that the world will marvel not only at what we have built but at the beauty that has been added to the world by the sacrifices of invisible mothers god bless posted by sharon at 11 11 am 6 comments wednesday january 5 2011 dog biscuits from stoney it has been six months today since stoney went away there is not a day that goes by without his memory still vivid in my heart i wish that i had the talent to write a book so i could document all the lessons i learned from stoney of course the book would be titled dog biscuits from stoney it may sound silly but i really did learn a lot from him i d have chapters on faithfulness patience love loyalty forgiveness courage hospitality and worship there may be others but these come to mind without effort let me just share one story since i ve been on facebook i ve taken a lot of those little quizzes i m really a sucker for them just have to know which flower i d be or what color or what decade i should have lived in so when i saw a quiz that would tell me what spiritual gifts i have i took it immediately now this is a topic to which i ve given some thought and i had decided that my spiritual gifts include mercy and teaching guess what my only spiritual gift is according to the quiz worship certainly would have never thought that on my own in fact i considered that a fairly useless gift seems like just about everyone would have that one in the explanation of worship the author of the quiz even made the statement that he or she didn t know why but god enjoys our worship does that sound special or what so as you can guess i blew off that information and didn t give it much more thought then stoney died i spent hours every day trying to figure out why i was so devastated he was just a dog you know i had a dog he got sick and died and that s that but as i thought about stoney all i could remember was how much his happiness depended on my presence he felt safe with me he was happiest when with me when he saw me his whole appearance perked up when i prepared to leave the house his eyes asked can i go i was everything to stoney in fact he worshiped me and that s why i loved him so much that s why i miss him so much and suddenly i understood why god enjoys our worship so much my mother used to say that the way to a man s heart was through his stomach there is probably some truth to that but i m sure that the way to god s heart is through worship and i ll bet you can guess that i ve decided worship is just about the best spiritual gift you can have till next time sharon posted by sharon at 11 13 pm 1 comment friday december 31 2010 on my way back hopefully i m on my way back to blogging from time to time in just a few hours we will officially welcome 2011 hardly seems possible but for now i just want to say happy new year to all 2010 was not such a bad year except for the loss of my dear stoney would you believe i m still crying for that little fellow surely 2011 will bring healing our christmas was very mininally this year i just wanted to ignore it and for the most part i did it went so well i ll probably do that next year i bought only a few things mostly for the grands the older kids got checks which i think they like much better than the presents i buy saves them a trip to return what i bought at any rate brian gave me 6 months of ancestory com and i ve been spending lots of time on that i m such a slow learner that by the time i get it figured out the 6 months will be over probably buy it myself after that the new year will find us for the most part healthy and looking forward to rving in the spring praying that 2011 will be better than 2010 and knowing that god who saw us safely through 2010 will continue to keep us in his care sharon posted by sharon at 8 52 pm 1 comment monday july 12 2010 another loss i wish that i never had to say this but we ve lost our precious little stonewall my heart is broken and i don t think it is ever going to heal i know there are those who will think me foolish to feel this way but stonewall was my baby in many ways he was a child to me where i went he went up the stairs down the stairs to the bathroom to the kitchen and as i played on the computer he was at my feet in fact he always wanted to sit with his butt on my foot i think it was his security over the years i ve come to just know he was there and expect it i can t tell you how lonely this house is without him and harley is just as lost as can be we really don t know how to help harley i with i could speak dog for him can you imagine having such a close friend most of your life and suddenly there is no one like you there at all stonewall s death seemed to come out of the blue to me only 9 years old we expected to have him at least five more years but looking back he was really slowing down he didn t want to go up the steps to the bedroom unless he was sure i was staying up there so he would stand with his feet on the bottom step and look up at me as if to say are you staying up there because i m not putting forth the effort to get up the steps if you re not he had had skin lesions for years they would come during the fall and spring really badly allergies were the basis but the vet said his immune system just couldn t keep those staph bugs at bay for some reason last year it was determined that he was hypothyroid and thyroid supplements were supposed to make him more able to fight off the staph it did not his skin was so bad and he would just cry with the itching sometimes he would wake me at night crying and rubbing his face on the floor so we took him to the vet to get something so that the lesions would at least get to a point so we could do a little rving the vet gave him atopica which is cyclosporine cyclosporine is used in humans to suppress the immune system and prevent organ rejection in transplant patients powerful stuff and i wasn t comfortable with giving it to him sure enough he started vomiting after about a week to 10 days on the medicine back to the vet stoney s liver enzymes were elevated so the vet stopped the medicine and he did a little better the vet also had us bring him in to test for cushings disease which sometimes causes lots of the same symptoms stoney had including the elevated liver enzymes he did not have cushings and so the doctor sent him home and started the atopica again at half the dose along with amoxicillin and metronidazole i wasn t comfortable with the metronidazole because i ve seen stoney not cope well with it before but the vet assured me it wasn t stoney s problem on wednesay before the 4th of july stoney was too weak to go outside so we took him to the vet again dr f assured me he wasn t sick enough to die though he did have an enlarged heart and we were going to have to deal with heart failure as the years went on i was so sure stoney was going to bounce back that i didn t go see him on thursday he had been sick with similar symptoms before and bounced back after a couple of days at the vets called to see how he was and the office said to call back on friday morning and stoney could probably go home i waited until friday about 1pm to go see him expecting fully to take him home the doctor was surprised when i showed him the yellowing in stoney s eyes of course he was not coming home at 10 30pm the dr called and prepared me that stonewall was very likely not to make it through the night i prayed harder for that dog than i think i ve ever prayed for anything before including my children and parents i even asked god to take me instead of stoney he was just so innocent and depended on me to keep him safe i just didn t think i could stand it if he died the next morning the dr said he was a little better and i went to see him i sat all day with him on saturday he would vomit and i d clean him up then he would settle down as near to me as he could get and sleep his gums were nearly glowing they were so yellow the next day sunday july 4th he was alive and stable we all thought he had weathered the storm but dr f said he couldn t say he was out of the woods yet stoney s chances at that point of 65 to 35 in our favor we spent a long day with stoney sitting on the front porch of the vet s office on that day stoney s face just looked better more alert and interactive with us even dr f said he looked better but still had a way to go we left stoney that afternoon with high spirits that he would be home by wednesday after three days of worry and stress we were feeling confident that stoney would be well soon but the next morning as i was drying my hair to get dressed and go sit with stoney pop came in crying and i knew from the look on his face that we had lost our precious precious stoney though i started this post some time back it has taken me six week to be able to make this post i ve cried for stoney everyday and i don t see that ending soon it was so sudden and for me there is so much question as to the cause of his death i just can t come to terms with it i m a person who needs to understand the why of a situation in order to accept it and the answer to that question is not for me to know for sure pancreatitis was the diagnosis and for sure he had that but why was it the food we gave him the medicine he was taking or did he have a tumor i ll never know for sure one thing i do know that haunts me is that stoney died in a kennel cage which he hated and alone and for that i ll always feel guilty he deserved better posted by sharon at 4 34 pm 4 comments tuesday april 27 2010 rambling on i guess i haven t posted in a long time because i just don t have anything to post about nothing that seems very interesting anyway but i have been reading your posts with much interest and reading them fairly regularly i ve also been reading a lot of books i discovered the miss julia series and i ve read all of them such delightful stories i m sure you would enjoy as well and the thrush green series which i learned about on jan karon s website you know she wrote the mitford series which i loved she says that if you liked visiting mitford you would relish a visit to thrush green and she was sooooo right reading one of those books is like going on vacation for me this series is set in the cotswold region of england which i had never heard of until i starting reading these books i googled it one day and oh my word it looks like heaven to me gentle rolling hills and lush green pastures everywhere now i want to visit the area but don t think that s going to happen since we can t get the motorhome there i m also working hard to learn to knit socks i know i know i ve got all that fabric in my sewing room and those three sewing machines to do everything i want but i just want to knit some socks let me tell you that is not easy takes 4 or 5 needles at the same time one day as i was fretting and fussing with all those needles pop said you are going crazy with that he could be right read a post tonight on one of the blogs i follow and it seems the blogger is selling off all the lovely things she has collected over a life time her husband is ill and it s time to make those type of decisions just couldn t help but have my heart break a little for her we are all traveling that same road i was thinking the other day that this is really the season of good byes in life while she is saying good bye to dolls hat boxes linens and such i m saying good bye to friends and family i ve depended on all my life good bye to those precious little children i loved and cared for so faithfully they are all grown up now with their own lives sure leaves a big hole in mine good bye to careers hopes dreams potential and all the sureness that youth holds good bye to my sense of smell taste hearing and sight thank you god that i can still smell taste hear and see but not nearly as well as in my youth my mind is no where as sharp as it once was either though i think my tongue has not lost its edge good bye to strength stamnia and energy good bye to day without pain and nights that i sleep all the way thorough the night without waking from aching shoulders hands knees or back good bye to being able to walk the mall all day or chase small children from sun up to sun down we worked a lifetime sure that we would be able to enjoy our retirement but didn t have a clue that by the time we had it made we would have had it no wonder i m spending so much time reading that s about all i can do any more we did finally get the den painted and i did a good bit of cleaning out stored stuff in the process i was struck by just how little ...