"10 Patch 9 Patch or A Light Shines in the Darkness and the Darkness Did Not Overcome It"
As I draw closer to the end of seminary and the ELCA candidacy process, it seems that only theology and prayer finds its way into my head during my sewing time.
And there seems to be so little sewing time!
This is a super simple quilt made of 10 9 patches. Yellow was the clear choice this month for reasons beyond my understanding, but as I worked, I kept reflecting on the new theology coming out of the Black Lives Matter movement, and how genuinely it couples with the not-so-new theology of the cross...which clearly states that God is present in the suffering.
So, my background is brown and black to represent the bodies of those whom I witness in the current company of God. And the yellow sings in the midst of them.
Which reminds me that God is present in the darkest of hours.
"A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it."(John 1:5)
It shall be so, even or especially in this time.
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