A Piece of Time

She made me angry.

She made me feel confused and uncertain.

And so I prayed that God would give me another job,

a way to escape.

Shortly after that prayer,

I met my future husband's family.

His sister needed a nanny/housekeeper to help with her triplet babies.

God gave me relief from my conflict,

and the avenue by which I would meet the next phase of my life

with my Farmer.

But God has a way for bringing about healing,

of mending wounded hearts and angry frustrations.

Time has a way, sometimes, of being a medicine of it's own.

As Christians, we both knew that forgiveness,

although sometimes a hard choice to make,

needs to be grasped at the foot of the cross

where the Master of forgiveness set the standard.

The person that she is,

she didn't take offense too personally to my stepping away from the friendship,

didn't hold to the words that had expressed my feelings.

Mending went out one day through a card in the mail,

and a returning one came that promptly responded.

Since I have moved back to the area,

she has helped me with things,

 as she is such a giving type of person.

She told me she'd found a piece of furniture at a yard sale

and didn't really have a place for it

or the time to refinish it.

She wondered if I'd want it.

I had the perfect place for it,

so I stripped the top through several layers of colored paints,

and painted the base first with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Arles.

What a happy color it is.


I wanted to stain the stripped wood with a dark color,
so I stained with dark walnut mixed with a bit of red oak.

The Arles was such a contrast with the stained top,
but I knew the Arles was just an undercoat:

 I wanted to tint it a green over it,
so I mixed some Arles with the Antibes green.

After a sand-paper rub down
and some Rugger Brown and Clear wax to the whole thing,
 

the piece was done.

She will be over to help me with a project in a few weeks.

She'll see the refinished piece

and know that I appreciated her thoughtfulness in letting me take a chance with it.

After all,

I suspect we're are all unfinished pieces in this life,

don't you think?

Linking up to:

Missmustardseed.com: Furniture-feature-Friday
Tatertotsandjello.com 
Funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot: Sat-nite-special
Under the Table and Dreaming: Sunday-showcase-party
Theprairiehomestead.com: Homestead-barn-hop

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