“I want to be softened, not stiff. Pliable, not rigid. I don't want anyone to look at my life and think it is perfect or, worse, that I want them to think it is perfect. Instead, I want anything that is unapproachable or harsh in me to be scrubbed away by the salt and the sand, revealing the imperfections, the brokenness, the cracks. Not because I am proud of those parts, but because I know it is real. Like the Skin Horse or the Velveteen Rabbit, I am shabby because I live life, because I am loved, and because it is all work - living and loving and being loved, being transformed, being worn and faded” FaithHonesty Book:A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together Source: A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together
“I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap of fabric to the story, to the Story of God, that will be retold again and again for all of eternity.” GodFaithChristianitySewing Book:A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together Source: A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together