Wednesday, September 19, 2018

His church

Solids, Prints and patterns,

How can they ever go together?

The quilter stitching one next to the other

Two maybe three that might match

Or maybe opposites attract

So many differences

And too many preferences

Old leather butted up against delicate chiffon

Wild calico positioned near practical flannel

Sensible corduroy sliding in next to stained taffeta

Sophisticated Velvet nestled with Practical polyester

How quixotic and unrealistic for all to find a space

And yet the stitches keep coming adding another in place

Together forming comfort for wrapping others up

A covering for shade and to protect

A hammock to carry the broken

A banner to declare they are chosen

The church in all its colors

Must embrace sister and brothers

And know they are a perfect fit

Accepting the maker of the blanket

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (ESV) For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves[a] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts,[b] yet one body.

Matthew 18:20 (ESV) For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Ephesians 4:16 (ESV) from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love

Leather, rugged, stretched, durable

Velvet soft, luxurious, impractical

Chiffon light plain sheer

Taffeta crisp, soft shiny

Organdy sheer stiff crisp

Calico plain, colorful simple

Corduroy Linear, textured soft

Flannel twill soft cozy

Polyester stretchy wrinkle resistant, wash-and-wear