Prayers and crafts often go together. Saying prayers while making a shawl has become a major movement in the needlework world. These prayer shawls are very popular. They were the beginning. Now there are prayer cloths and many other items with prayers built into every stitch.
The prayers are invisible. Remember the story, A Tale of Two Cities, that we all had to read in school, where Madame Lafarge knitted in the names of those on their hit list, in code, and no one knew? At least these prayer shawls have a much more upbeat purpose.
It seems I’m thanking you a lot, lately, Dear Father, for that which you have given me and many others, through the handcrafting skills you have led us to gain.
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I so needed to be reminded of this. I am not a knitter, but I do no-sew fleece work, sewing clothes and crosstitch. I found a poem that I had torn out of a magazine a few years ago that I feel compelled to crosstitch for my mom. It is one of those "Don't cry for me, I'm at peace in Heaven" sort of poems.
I want to use prayer when I do this because she still has a hard time at the holidays since her mother passed almost five years ago.
It just so happens that my next to youngest was born on the last birthday that my grandmother celebrated, however my grandmother never saw my daughter.
So when I begin stitching I will remember to say a prayer in hopes that the gift will bring my mother some sense of peace.
Thank You Evie,
Shelly
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