dorcas – Mother A Writes

Wearing Ministry

Hands that show signs of age feeding fabric through a sewing machine, taken from the perspective of someone looking over the shoulder of the textile worker

Acts 9:36-43 When I was newly ordained, a woman in my first parish died and I was to preside at her funeral. Instead of flowers, her children told me they would be bringing some things she had made to adorn the altar. She was a quilter, and an embroiderer, with an artist’s eye. The dayContinue reading “Wearing Ministry”