Quilting Retreat

This weekend these ladies enjoyed doing their favorite activities - quilting, enjoying good food and knitting their relationships at Shepherd's Staff. It was very appropriate that our collection of antique quilts hung in the Sea of Galilee Dining Room for them to enjoy.

The quilt pictured on the left was created by local ladies to celebrate the Centennial birthday of Rexford, Kansas. (1888-1988) . The other one pictured was pieced together from "friendship squares" - each lady embroidered her name in a square and others stitched them together to make the quilt.

At the end of each meal, the chatter and laughter softened and the whirl of their sewing machines soon filled the hall once more. The variety of the quilts reflected the creative gifts of each lady.

As I reflect on their time together, my thoughts go to how precious are the lives of our friends as our hearts are knit together with cords of joint experiences. Each one adds to the beauty of our life and strengthens us to develop our own gifts and interests and callings.

"But if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin." I John 1:7 NIV