Yesterday Saskia was visited by her two bests friends Jessica Steyn and Jaymee Blades. Jessica came in the early afternoon and within no time they were giggling away! They warmed themselves up with laughter before Jaymee came later in the afternoon and boy, did they have fun! They were all laughing their heads off and that did Saskia soooo good!
It is amazing what a bit of laughter can do. The photo on the left was taken with extreme difficulty. They just could not keep still or sit quiet. After this photo was taken, they all burst out again and again and again. It was FANTASTIC!When she got her blood transfusion yesterday, the girls came up with all kinds of vampire stories and tears were running down their cheeks.
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| Brittany's Cheese Cake |
And today there was another great visitor: Saskia's "big sister" Brittany Herriman. who made her a fantastic cheese cake.....
They do say that laughter is the best medicine and although it may not heal cancer, it certainly blows off some steam.
Saskia does feel much better now and doctors are happy with her progress. She still has fevers, but they have come down. The pain in her arm and shoulder is not there anymore and she actually has been eating some real food.
And yes, she does not mind being her again!
We r so glad to see Saskia smiling . Praise the Lord
ReplyDeleteLord pls continue to watch over our precious little girl..Amen!!!!!
Luv n always in our hearts
Nana
The Teacup Story
ReplyDeleteMay we all see ourselves and God's creative mastery in the story of the teacup.
There was a couple who used to go to England to shop in the beautiful stores. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups. This was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
One day in this beautiful shop they saw a beautiful cup.They said, "May we see that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful."
As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the cup spoke."You don't understand," it said. "I haven't always been a teacup.There was a time when I was red and I was clay. My master took me and rolled me and patted me over and over andI yelled out, 'let me alone,' but he only smiled, 'Not yet.'
"Then I was placed on a spinning wheel," the cup said,"and suddenly I was spun around and around and around.Stop it! I'm getting dizzy! I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet.'
"Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat!" the teacup said. "I wondered why he wanted to burn me, and I yelled and knocked at the door. I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as He shook his head, 'Not yet.'
"Finally the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. 'There, that's better,' I said. And he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag.'Stop it, stop it!' I cried. He only nodded, 'Not yet.'
"Then suddenly he put me back into the oven, not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate.I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. All the time I could see him through the opening, nodding his head saying, 'Not yet.'
"Then I knew there wasn't any hope. I would never make it. I was ready to give up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the shelf.
One hour later he handed me a mirror and said, 'Look at yourself.' And I did. I said, 'That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful.'
"'I want you to remember, then,' he said, 'I know it hurts to be rolled and patted, but if I had left you alone, you'd have dried up.
I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel,but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled.
I knew it hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven,but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked.
I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened;you would not have had any color in your life.
And if I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't survive for very long because the hardness would not have held.
Now you are a finished product.You are what I had in mind when I first began with you.'"
~ Author Unknown
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying, "Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I shall announce My words to you."Then I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, making something on the wheel.But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make. Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, "Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?" declares the Lord. "Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel." Jeremiah 18:1-6 (NASB)
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Moral:
God knows what He's doing (for all of us).
He is the Potter, and we are His clay.
He will mold us and make us,
so that we may be made into a flawless piece of work
to fulfill His good, pleasing, and perfect will.
Like the teacup, let us willingly yield to the Potter's hand.
Lots of love.... Godparent Steven
I loved this story when I first heard it one day in church Saskia... It has been my favorite story ever since..
ReplyDeleteIt's also something for your papa and mummy to read and reflect...
Lots of love... Godparent steven from the sunny island of Singapore