About twenty years ago God brought fabric and some quilting ladies into my life. Over the years He has used thread, scissors, sewing machines and seam rippers to help me make my way back to Him and I fell in love with the art of quilting. For years I struggled with mental health issues, bad marriages and just bad mistakes. Somehow, even though I was saved at age 20, baptized and in church I couldn’t quite make the transition to believing that I was “good enough” for God.
Have you given your heart to Christ, been baptized but still didn’t think you were good enough? Sometimes we need a little more to help us get from point A to point B. Maybe we didn’t have someone to help us along in our first years of being a believer, maybe we were just so used to not trusting a father that making that leap was a little more than we could handle.
So after years of trying to be good enough, not worrying about being good enough; trying every medication made for people with mental health issues and a few other things that got me nowhere, God brought me quilting.
Over the past 15 years God has used quilting to help me put the pieces of my life back together. He used it to show me that I have value and worth, that I’m good enough. Through quilting I’ve learned that I’m an artist, I’ve learned patience, gotten better at math and learned how to teach. Me, the girl who couldn’t even get a relationship with her savior right was learning to speak a new language of love through sewing.
So today I want to ask you, what did God give you to help you get through the struggles? Have you realized or tried to put into words what got you to that place of healing? God was with me all along, I didn’t need to prove anything to Him, he knew me and knew who I would be, I just had to learn to trust Him.
Isaiah 12:2, 2 says, See, God has come to save me. I will trust in Him and not be afraid. The Lord God is my strength and my song; he has given me victory.
Let God give you victory, let Him be your strength and song, learn to trust Him in all things and see where He takes you. If you let him, God will show you how to put the pieces of your life back together, it may not be through quilting, but it will surely be just what you need to become whole.
Sondra Striker