Hello lovely people! It has been an intense year with much to report on. In all things, God is Good, and Our Blessed Mother is so gracious that my heart is continually full of joy.
Making this bag reminded me that no matter how intense my time is, the urge to create and bring beauty never leaves. I loved every minute of the process. The appliqué was done using scrap silk kimono and cotton yukata fabric. Except for the waxed canvas bottom, the structure of the bag is all Japanese material. I did some hand quilting on the front panel and machine quilted the back.
Some words to share from my commonplace. Words that shine like the stars from minds of those far closer to God than I. May you find in them true food for the soul.
Understand me well. The pearl of genuine virtue is engendered in the depths of the sea of suffering and humility. Thence we pass into the immense ocean of uncreated love and allow ourselves to be swallowed up in its waters. (St Paul of the Cross).
To refuse silence filled with confident fear and adoration is to refuse God the freedom to take hold of us by his love and presence. Sacred silence allows man to place himself joyfully at God’s disposal. It enables him to overcome the arrogant attitude that would claim that God is at the disposal of all the whims of his children. What creature can boast of possessing the Creator in this way? On the contrary, sacred silence offers us a way of leaving the profane world and the incessant turmoil of our immense metropolitan cities so as to allow God to take hold of us. Sacred silence is truly the place where we can encounter God, because we come to him with the proper attitude of a man who trembles and stands at a distance while hoping confidently (Cardinal Sarah).
Live a quiet life, my dearest daughter. Cast out of your imagination whatever could dismay you, and tell Our Lord often, ‘Oh God, you are my God, and I trust in you; you will help me and be my refuge; I will fear nothing.’ Not only are you with him, but you are in him and he is in you (St. Pio of Pietrelcina).
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