Snippets

I feel like I am going from the sublime to the ridiculous, yet maybe there is a path. First, this week has had happenings I just don’t need to comment on. Second, a funeral used Proverbs 31 which lists all the things stay at home wives do well. Third, devotions kept provided verses with the I Am statements of God, all that really needs to be said. So I thought of myself, and you, and people around the world and the varied I am and what each brings to the table. Some are chefs, some are accountants, gardeners, woodworkers, and today someone was even good enough at quantum physics to win a Nobel Prize.

So, I was and am a seamstress, a sewer. I am visual. I can look at a piece of fabric and envision possibilities. A delightful trip is always to a fabric store from Rosenblum’s in Hammond, to Krauss in New Orleans, to a little shop in Golden, CO, with an opportunity to touch the folds and be swallowed by the colors and patterns. From cottons to fine wools, from feed sacks to velvets. I have made at least one of all possibilities, my creative moments. I have made napkins and pillowcases and clothes to suit age and gender. Then there are quilts which began with bed size and a pattern and the leftovers become the title for today, the snippets, the scraps which still have possibilities. Oh, and don’t forget special individual baby covers which have been treasured to the next generation.

Now, what about you. When we sit in a group with a project or a problem in front of us, what is your contribution? How do you finish the sentence, “I can……” ” I am…..” Scripture has a serving section with lists, “And some are called to be……” All offerings can be holy and we weren’t cloned as robots. Various stories require unique leaders. Have you built any arks lately? Though I am more than the utilizer of a needle and thread, I do cherish several verses for my skill.

She makes coverings for her bed;
    she is clothed in fine linen and purple.

Proverbs 31:22