Yesterday at Prayer Shawl Ministry meeting a new member, Pete, showed us her first shawl. She discussed how it was not very good (which was a lie, because it was very, very nice) and that she didn't have someone to give it to. She told her son that she was just going to put it in the closet and let it sit for a while. Her son said, "wait, Mom, I'll take two." (Let's set aside the fact that he said two, which was an unreasonable demand obviously coming from a non-knitter.) Pete's son is a trauma nurse at one of the hospitals. He mentioned how the other day the people in the hospital had to wrap a woman who had just lost her baby in a really old hospital blanket. How much better to have a knit shawl?
We all got chills. Indeed, knit shawls are better, and we sent Pete home with the rest of the shawls in our closet.
We blessed them all for ERs. My little thoughts and prayers go with those shawls and the many little journeys that they go out on.
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great idea for ers. anxious to see the homespun broadripple shawl.
Somebody prompted that nice lady and her son to think of shawls for the hospital. Kewl.
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