humbled and also
03-07-2011, 11:35 AM
#51
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I agree with you. A couple of weeks ago I made a fleece blanket for a lady at churches dil. I took it to our weekly ladies meeting and had the girls there lay their hands on it & we prayed over it. Her mother in law cried when I gave it to her & her husband cried when she took it home When she went to visit the kids both of them cried also. Then next week there was a thank you note at the meeting that said thank you to all of the ladies. I was so glad that it didn't mention me only because I made it but they prayed together for it. I think it made a lot of people happy. & the breast cancer quilt God told me to do it. Thanks CAthy A(tumrub)
03-07-2011, 02:08 PM
#55
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Location: Colfax, LA
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The first response to this posting says what I think. I've seen many quilters take a quilt to a baby shower and come home disappointed because the to-be-mom didn't rave enough about it. How could she and how selfish to think she would. To rave about one gift among many at a shower would make others feel their gifts weren't enough. If you want or need that kind of validation, give your baby quilt when no one else is around. My DIL has a grandmother who expects that kind of validation. She actually told me after a baby shower for my DIL that she was disappointed that my DIL didn't make over the quilt much. I don't back up from stuff like this--tell it like it is. I told her my DIL didn't because it would have been improper to do at the time. I also told her to wait until she gets the thank you note and I was sure then she would realize how important the quilt was to my DIL (her granddaughter).
03-07-2011, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by lisalisa
I made a quilt for my bff's BIL who is battling cancer. I don't really know them but when the quilt gods talk. You listen.
His wife sent me a nice thank you note and told me they were going to take it with them to chemo and stem cell treatments.
My friend called last night to tell me that her BIL was actually so touched that he started crying (and so did I dangit!). His wife just didn't mention it because she didn't want to embarrass him, being the big tough guy that he is.
On that note, someone made a post earlier about not getting the kind of thanks they want and or expect when they help someone out. But one of the greatest lessons I've learned in life is to not look to others to validate your worth, or in this instant, your charity. If you have no hidden agenda, simply giving should be enough. Everything else, is just, everything else.
Just my two cents.
His wife sent me a nice thank you note and told me they were going to take it with them to chemo and stem cell treatments.
My friend called last night to tell me that her BIL was actually so touched that he started crying (and so did I dangit!). His wife just didn't mention it because she didn't want to embarrass him, being the big tough guy that he is.
On that note, someone made a post earlier about not getting the kind of thanks they want and or expect when they help someone out. But one of the greatest lessons I've learned in life is to not look to others to validate your worth, or in this instant, your charity. If you have no hidden agenda, simply giving should be enough. Everything else, is just, everything else.
Just my two cents.
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