The last meeting for the 2011-2012 season of our knitting ministry

Today's meeting was our last gathering until September. Our time together was filled with prayer, laughter, stories and of course .. knitting. We are truly a blessed ministry...may God watch over us and keep us safe as we spend the summer months enjoying the gifts that Mother Nature brings to our beautiful New England. The poem below sums it up perfectly. See you all in September. Keep checking back...I will still be posting on our blog in the hopes that we find some new knitters to welcome in the Fall!

For flowers that bloom about our feet
for tender grass, so fresh and sweet
For song of bird and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see
Father in Heaven, we thank Thee!
          Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 6th Sunday of Easter

Mother's Day

Gospel reading John 15: 9-17
"Love one another as I have loved you"...True love is self-giving for the sake of another...
isn't that what our ministry is all about? Knitting all of God's love into our shawls so that someone can be wrapped with a big warm hug from Him?
Happy Mother's today to all of our knitters and wrappers who also give unconditional love to their families.

May 6, 2012 - The Fifth Sunday of Easter

"Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on it's own, unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me."
Gospel reading - John 15:1-8
Before you begin knitting, look at your needles, your yarn, your stitches....think of the needles as God's hands, strong and comforting, guiding  your hands... together  you are creating a vine that branches out into something beautiful. Without God's hands holding yours while you are knitting your shawls, they are just threads woven together without purpose.