There is a woman who is very near and dear to our family’s hearts who is going in for a mastectomy tomorrow.  This is the second time they have found her to have breast cancer.  It is also fitting that she is having her surgery in the month of October, which is breast cancer awareness month.  Please keep her and her family in your prayers.

But, I write this because I sent her a little note late last week that read:

Keep my quilted heart with you at times when you may need to recall that what the surgeons are doing to you is much the same as I do to fabric – taking a perfectly good piece of material, cut it up and make something even more beautiful than when I began.  My quilts are stitched with love and then held together with the quilting that’s applied to it and usually gifted to others with love.  I find many parallels where my quilt process mimics life – taking what is already good and making it better.  THAT is our prayer for you and your health.  Sometimes, this process makes a beautiful crazy quilt – and that SO fits some folks in both our families <smirk>.

Today, the day before her surgery, she writes me back a quick note:

Your quilting parallels to life situations is beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing with me at this time of need! Keep quilting with God’s love in every stitch, my friend. Love in Christ.

 I didn’t have time to make her one of my “Crazy Quilt Hearts“, but my analogy was basically the same as if I had made one for her.

We will continue to pray for her surgeons, for her, her husband and her family – that we can selfishly keep this beautiful soul amongst us for a while longer.  She still has much to share, and we still have much to learn from her.