Prayer shawl

..As you know, I like to crochet...

and I like to make things that I give away...

I like to pray while I crochet..... thinking about the person who will wear or use what I make...

With that in mind, understand that prayer shawls (and blankets and scarves) are something I have been involved with for a long time.

Once upon a time :-)

I tried a new pattern...

It was really pretty...

Funny thing is that I followed the instructions but it turned out really big

I mean REALLY big...

I finished it anyway... and looked at it...

and looked at it....  thinking seriously about ripping it out and making another one...

But for some reason....  I added it to the stack of prayer shawls at my church.

I've thought about that shawl a lot over the last couple of years.... and kept meaning to get it back

and re-do it....

But God's ways are not our ways....

and we have to have faith that our efforts are good

we have to have faith that God has a plan for everything... even when we can't see it


While I was in church the other day,

I noticed a woman across the church from me ..wrapped in a crocheted blanket....  it gets really cold in the summer air conditioning..


While I was checking out the crochet (because I can't help it).... I thought... I remember making something that color...  oh my goodness!  You know where this is going, don't you?


It was the shawl I made......  and it was absolutely perfect for that woman...

If I, in my unholy perfectionism, had torn that shawl apart to make something else, that particular woman would not have had a shawl to fit her.

Not my plan..... God's plan....

Have faith!  God has a plan for you and all you do!

It is not only good enough.... it is perfect!