"Grace! Camera!" The call is a common one in our home. In response to it, a tall slim brunette with soft blue/gray eyes and a shy smile hurries down the steps with her digital camera in hand. Expertly adjusting the focus, exposure, and lighting, she is sure to get the best picture of whatever her siblings request, helping the whole family to preserve high quality(and resolution) memories for years to come. Grace Elizabeth Sauvé, my second younger sister in age, is a kaleidoscope of talents and ideas. Her other middle name is "Creativity" and she constantly lives up to it, with new and inspiring ideas for decorating, crafts, and other useful or unique projects. Besides being a budding Photographer, she is a competent Artist, particularly in pastel paintings, and also excels at the sewing machine, and in several other hand crafts such as crocheting and macramé. A long standing dream of hers is to own her own horse, and the majestic animals are frequently featured in her paintings, and on her bedroom calendar. Recently, she has been studying herbs and essential oils with her sisters, and is always ready to help freshen any sick room with delightful aromas. In the kitchen, her talents take more of a Mexican flavor, and she delights her brothers with spicy dishes that send some of us searching for a glass of water, or perhaps a carton of ice cream? ;-) She also enjoys making some delicious desserts, in which chocolate is a frequent ingredient. But more important than her many physical talents and abilities, her crowning glory is a deep love for her Savior, and a desire to read His Word and strive to know Him better. She also loves to read books about the saints and martyrs of the past, and learn from their faith and perseverance in trials. Grace, your love for the Lord is an encouragement and example to me! I am proud of you, and I pray that God will continue to mold you more and more into His Image, and that He will give you many opportunities to serve Him in the years to come! May you pass on your creative skills, and your love for the Lord to many generations after you!
Lots of love,
Your big sister,
Charity Joy
“I walked out to the hill just now. It is exalting, delicious, to stand embraced by the shadows of a friendly tree with the wind tugging at your coattail and the heavens hailing your heart, to gaze and glory and give oneself again to God-what more could a man ask? Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, and smile into his eyes—ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.
“O Jesus, Master and Center and End of all, how long before that Glory is Thine which has so long waited for Thee? Now there is no thought of thee among men; then there shall be thought for nothing else. Now other men are praised; then none shall care for any other’s merits. Hasten, hasten, Glory of Heaven, take Thy crown, subdue Thy Kingdom, enthrall Thy creatures.” (From the Journals of Jim Elliot).
