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This morning during my Bible study and prayer time, I read a passage I've read many times before, and no doubt some of you have read the same passage many times also. However, this morning I saw a word I had always overlooked before, and I just have to share this with you. I use the KJV, so it may be different in other translations.
I must confess I was wanting to finish that morning time frame quickly, because I was wanting to sew on my latest project today. My reading was from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; isn't everyone familiar with those verses? That's where it says there is a time for everything: to be born, to die, to plant, to heal, to weep, to laugh, to love; in fact, to do lots of different things. Look in your own Bible at verse 7. I don't recall ever noticing that it says there is a time to SEW.
At the risk of making light of the Scripture, I got to thinking that all the time we quilters spend sewing on our quilts , well,.... most of it anyway...., must be aligned with that verse 7. After all, many of the hours we spend are sewing on donation quilts for charities or church fund raisers.
Anyway, it made me smile a lot today as I sewed on my quilt. Actually I spent more time arranging blocks on the design wall than I did sewing, but that is a part of sewing and quilting, isn't it? I didn't take any new pictures, so this post will have none.
So if your significant other complains about the hours (and money) you spend working on your quilts, just tell him to check out those verses. Maybe he will agree that there truly is to be a time to sew (notice it doesn't say sewing on buttons!). You might also need to point out that verse 8 says there is also to be a time of peace, without his fussing. Too bad that word was not spelled 'piece'; that would have confirmed that Quilting Might Be Scriptural. *giggle*
Enough of this foolishness, right?
Happy Quilting!
---"Love"
1 day ago
Very interesting! I haven't read Ecclesiastes lately, so I got out my Bible, which is the New KGV, and you are correct! So, I decided to see what the paraphrase "The Message" which some people I know like says, and it says "A right time to rip out and another to mend." Rip out sounds to me like what we do when we make a mistake, but the NKJV says a "time to tear" which might be referring to what people in Biblical times used to do when they "rent" their clothing during mourning. Any way you look at it, though, It does say a time to sew and we certainly do that and I feel that creativity is an important aspect as well and that is a gift we get from God, the original creator.
ReplyDeleteThat's marvellous Love! By sew they meant quilt right? Must have been lost in translation. Like piece/peace.
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