Not just a cog in the machine

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Why stitch a small autumnal coaster when so much else is waiting? 

Maybe a better sentence is why do anything when the world seems fraught with unsolvable issues? Or maybe that's too deep to analyze. However, stuff like that has been on my mind, reading most mornings just snippets from Eberhard Bethge's biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was Bethge's friend, mentor, as well as relative through marriage.

I could veer off on a faith-based tangent, and perhaps one of these days I will. However right now my granddaughters are visiting, the youngest still in bed and if she wanders down imminently, breakfast will be my agenda for us both. Yet mentioning these musings matters, because they are strongly on my mind. That my faith propels me to be in this world, not out of it, a tenant I've claimed over the years. That as a believer in Christ, I am not of this world, and lately I've discovered how incorrect that is.

That sewing a small autumnal coaster in early summer with heaps of other fabric projects waiting is simply a tasking for NOW, or rather the last few days, lol. That studying the incomplete ponderings of a German Lutheran theologian who died at the end of World War II because he took part in a conspiracy to topple Hitler is quite relevant to life today. That teaching my granddaughters the very beginnings of sewing by machine was our thrill yesterday morning. That my husband's head cold continues, postponing our getting baby chicks today, but not dampening our hope to acquire them later this month. That all the little and large things we dream and/or accomplish MATTER despite the wrongs perpetrated that seem beyond our ability to alter.

Yeah, that about sums up where I am today.

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