Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Scrappy Theology: A Photo Essay Inspired by Quilt Camp

 The time at quilt camp did inspire me to think about quilting as metaphors for our spiritual lives.  Here are some initial ideas:

A wide variety of quilts can be made from the same medium, cloth.  



God, the ultimate quilter, can use small pieces or large swaths to create something new and more than the sum of its parts:



Quilts themselves have a variety of purposes:  to keep us warm while we sleep, to protect us from the floor, to decorate, to make us smile:



Some of us may feel that our lives are not a whole cloth, that we just have a collection of small pieces or scraps even more slender than fingers:


  


Happily, God is a talented quilter who can use every bit, no matter  how small.



You may protest that your life is shredded too small to be made into a whole cloth:



But God can create something delightful:



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