2 Tuesday October 5th
Morning Thought
Good morning
At this time of year several of
us in Mustard Seed Jersey receive invitations to go different groups to receive
knitted blankets and often knitted hats and other knitted goods. It is also the
time that various individual faithful knitters appear with bags of knitted
hats, scarves and blankets.
Now I am not a knitter so it
really is a mystery to me how these blankets hats scarves get made so
beautifully and in such quantity! Usually when I arrive to collect the blankets
I find them spread out. It never ceases to move me when I the evidence of time
skill and love.
The people who receive the
blankets in Romania are truly among the poorest. And to them to receive a
blanket is very important, after all when the temperatures drop maybe more than
10 degrees below freezing you need warm blankets!. At one distribution in
Oradea sadly we ran out of blankets and the social worker had to intervene as 2
women were fighting over the last blanket. That was how important it was to
them to get an extra blanket.
As well as blankets we receive
thousands of hand knitted hats each year. At shoebox distributions we often see
the recipient take the hat out of their shoebox and put it on their head immediately.
I do hope some of our generous
knitters are listening to me this morning because I want to say a big thank you
and God bless you for your contribution. Your knitted goods really do make a difference.