The power of a prayer shawl
As a chaplain at a local hospital, I have the opportunity to offer patients and family members in distress prayer shawls: They are knitted by community members as they pray for healing, love, and grace for the recipient, and we chaplains give them to patients with a prayer for grace and God's presence in their often lonely hospital rooms.
Have you experienced the power of a physical reminder of God's presence in your life? For me, it's often a stone or piece of wood that catches my eye, even just out in our woodsy backyard. I might pick up a pretty stone and carry it around, reminding me of the divine in our natural world. It isn't a shawl, but it serves a similar purpose.
Do you have a reminder such as these? Something to wrap around you or carry with you as a reminder that we're not alone?
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God loves you - especially if you carry a rock around in your pocket ???
Posted on March 18, 2009 3:24 AM
God doesn't love me *because* I carry a rock; the rock serves as a reminder of what is holy to me, just as the shawl serves as a reminder of holiness to the patients we give them to.
Posted on March 18, 2009 4:45 PM