Psalm 103:2-5 Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
I love handmade quilts. A good friend recently showed me a beautiful one made from a variety of colored pieces. I was given a star pattern quilt in faded red, white and blue when I was thirteen years old. It sits on a chest in my den and reminds me of the generosity of the elderly lady who wanted me to have it for my hope chest. My favorite quilt though is a yo-yo quilt made by my grandmother. She used many different scraps of fabric; scraps left over from clothes she loving sewed for my mother, me and my dolls over the years. Some people would have just discarded these bits of cloth but she brought them together and made something beautiful and useful. Christ does that with lives. When people feel used up and useless, Christ can heal. Christ can gather the broken pieces of our life and restore us and make us into something beautiful. Christ sees possibilities where others see hopelessness. My prayer is that those struggling with life right now will put themselves in the hands of the master who redeems and heals.
Abba Father, you sent your holy Son, fully human and fully divine to restore us in many ways. He understands our pain, our temptations and our frustrations. We ask that he continue to piece together broken lives. We pray in his holy name. Amen.
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