Oh Ye of Little Faith ...

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When you make as many quilts as we do, you go thru FABRIC - LOTS of fabric! We are blessed to get donations from people from our congregation - those who are clearing out their personal fabric stash ... those who inherit fabric from relatives and those who shop for fabric specially for our ministry. So, when we started getting to the end of the fabric to cut and there's no more coming in, you start to wonder, "Does this mean we are winding down on making quilts for survivors?" Is G-d trying to tell us something? We felt like we were the widow to Elijah in 1 Kings 17: 7-16 (Tikvah Rabah paraphrase: We don't have any fabric - only a handful of random pieces - we are going to make our last quilt, sew, send and die). Well, G-d, in His G-dly provision waited until we were at the bottom of the fabric stash and then, as He ALWAYS goes, he stirs someone's heart to gift us quilting fabric! A friend of a Rehoboth member asked if we could use fabric! OF COURSE! We received BOXES of this fabric which is being sorted, washed and ironed ... waiting to be handed off to our skilled fabric cutters! In looking back, He always seems to wait until the last moment ... when situation seems desperate. But that is when He says "stand back, children - watch what I am going to do!" WHY do we doubt when over and over again ... He provides! Psalm 27: 13-14 "I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” Here's to more FAITH & TRUST and less DOUBT and FEAR Shalom, Shalom

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