Place Your Hope in the Lord, Remains of the Day, Blue Blanket

I have 4 full squares/'checkers' done now! 

Ravelry for this blanket is here.

I will start on another part of the blanket soon

and will leave this one to be sewn together at the end.

I think the ribbing will be the least repeated part

of the pattern, depending more on seed and garter stitches. 

It's going to be fun to create different patterns and

colour block arrangements for this blanket!

I am thinking it will be a lap blanket size...

I am still reading Remains of the Day and

am enjoying not only the Britishness of it

but how it captures a time period and history in England,

a time that is no longer with us...

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I also read a delightful book, an 'easy read' as it were,

that was insightful, funny and full of love and encouragement. 

Place Your Trust in the Lord is the story

of Fr. Lazar who helped many in Serbia rediscover

their Lord Jesus Christ and Orthodox faith.

It is different from but reminds me of the book

Everyday Saints and is well worth the reading time!

The publisher blurb drew me in to buying this book at 

Holy Dormition Monastery two years ago

and I finally had the right moment to read this book.

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"A man of few words but great compassion, Father Lazar of Serbia and Montenegro sought neither attention nor accolades, yet became a revered spiritual leader not only for his monastery but for those both within, and without, the walls of his monastery. The words and actions of this modern-day spiritual father, born of an unfailing hope in Christ, cut through the din and clatter of a turbulent world. Those willing to listen - to Father Lazar's own words and the words of those shepherded by him - have an opportunity to enter the empathy that he had for all people."

-Publisher of Place Your Hope in the Lord

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