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Message from the Clerk

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Today I finished a quilt, actually a wall hanging.  I purchased the fabric and patterns for it at an Amish Country Quilt Shop Hop in 2013.  This involved visiting ten quilt stores in eastern Ohio where I lived at the time.  I did all the quilting by hand because I find it is a good time for contemplating things that are going on in my life. 

There are several nice things about quilting.  One it is that you can put the project down for months and then when you need it, you can pick it up again.  The other thing is that even though in a single day you might not be able to count too many stitches done, bit by bit, it gets completed.  Now I need to figure out where to hang it up. 

When George Fox said to be patterns I don’t think he had quilting patterns in mind.  But maybe sometimes the way to let your life speak is through your creative outlets.  If I’m remembering correctly he wrote the message that Dreiske quoted for us when he was in jail and trying to convince a particularly harsh jailer of the Truth and how that jailer should answer to God.  It was a difficult and stressful situation and yet he suggested we walk cheerfully.      

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