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My mom tried so many times to teach me how to crochet. She crocheted blankets for all 5 of her kids and mine was taken from me very young. Once I learned to knit though, I caught on immediately and kept that skill my entire life.
I once used large balls of yarn my mom had, like they were a basket ball. They got horribly tangled and when my mom went to start her project, she was none too impressed. I did confess and she made me untangle them all. Which I did, easier than I thought I would. She didn't yell at me. She didn't degrade me and she taught me a huge skill in patience, while we as a family were facing serious problems, too. Of all the things I did wrong as a child, that one was my favourite. I bet she thought of me non-stop once she was finally able to start her project!!
My aunt spoke of pillows my mom crocheted for her and her ex husband while I would have been just a toddler. That's how long handmade memories last. Most people never know the hours, love and care put in to a new knitted or crocheted piece. Or the prayers with every stitch.
Every single time I update this website, I think to myself, "I really wish my mom was alive to see this." But then I realize, if she hadn't died, I might not have had a need to create this website. It is such a huge challenge to do anything new in my life, without being able to share it with my mom.
This story is regarding the number 6 repeated. I have listened to many theories on the topic and have been told many times it's less the number, more about thought and what you do. In my whole life, I have never bothered trying to avoid the number itself because I always believed I was safe from enemy attacks that way. I really did not believe that anything from revelation could ever be a thing in my lifetime either. My generation was the generation of the age of technology. We were supposed to have such better outcomes than any generation before. Instead, my generation became the first to do cicrumstantially worse than our parents did. I never imagined there could ever be people in the world, trying to make things from revelation happen. One time, someone actually suggested they were "breaking the seals" as reference to bringing about end times. First, might I address that that is not how that works and Jesus' return will never happen even one second before it is really time so if people are purposely doing things noted in Revelation in hopes that Jesus will come back faster; it really does not work that way. The use of superstition regarding the number 6 has been getting shoved down my throat for years now though. It is only recently, that I learned the Bible itself is made up of 66 books. I have always known God created everything, even the number 6, in 6 days. Including evil. The perception that people must serve evil or "give the devil his due" is just a mindset, that most people should check themselves on before spreading or serving that nonsense. No. We owe the devil nothing. Not one thing. We owe Jesus, everything. Not only did Jesus' death effectively buy us back from evil but even the number 6, was a number God created. Things from the Bible have been used many times to excuse what has been done to me and to play hurt me more, on the notion that evil rules this world. But it doesn't. If it did, Jesus died for nothing. I can't imagine how slighted God must feel, every time someone tries to spread ideals about evil owning this world, given that Jesus was his own son. I avoided leaving to go get my mom's ashes on the 6th of June, because I was worried about that number. Something I clearly know, is an irrational superstition. Everything, everything, is God's first. Now I have finally managed supporting argument to show that number is God's first and always, still ruled by God and Jesus forgives those lead astray by Biblical theories presented as stand-alone arguments. Nobody can make Jesus come back faster. It is God's number, long before evil can ever lay claim to it. He made everything in 6 days. Everything. Even that number. Beginning to end.