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Janice loved music, she sang in our choir and led worship, but the silent music of her heart was the shawls.

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The Little Details of a Prayer Shawl Ministry

It has been said that God is in the details.  Well, the details are what often snag you up when you begin a prayer shawl ministry.  Here are a few things we learned in the last several years…
We don’t make a habit of it, but you can wash the shawls if you have to.  Occasionally [...]

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Prayer Blankets for Babies

We had been having our prayer shawl ministry for about a year when I was sitting in a service where the focus was the sanctity of life.  In our denomination, this is a Sunday where the focus in on honoring life. Life in the womb, for the newborn, as well as the sick and elderly.  [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Wrapped Up In Love

This fall I have been watching my little granddaughter when her Mom is at work.  She is one year old and at that halfway point of still being a baby and wanting to be a little girl. She has come up with her own name to call me and that is MeMe.  We had a [...]

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Starting a Prayer Shawl Ministry

Every single day the top views for my blog is anything related to prayer shawls.  This tells me that people are interested in them and are searching for information about them.  This summer I helped a man name Fred and his wife start a prayer shawl ministry with his congregation.  Fred and his wife don’t [...]

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Prayer Shawls: The Card

This Shawl was created especially for you with love and prayers,
May God who formed your being, who knit you together in your mother’s womb,
who gave you the breath of life,
renew you this day and give you hope to sustain you.
May this prayer shawl be a sign of Christ’s healing presence.
May it warm you when you [...]

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Knitting and Crocheting the Shawls

I am continuing my series this week on prayer shawls, today’s post is how they are made and a sample prayer as you knit the shawl.  I want to clarify right up front, I don’t knit or crochet.  I heard about the prayer shawl ministry at a parish nursing class. I was fascinated with it, [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Prayer Shawls

By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me -
a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 42:8
Prayer Shawls have seen a resurgence with several books being written about creating them as well as a website for information (see my blogroll). Even the novelist  Debbie Macomber included a prayer shawl story [...]

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Flowers and Bird

There is so much you can do with this flower and bird stamp from Inkadinkado. I made this card to go with a prayer shawl I was giving, but you could also use it as a wedding invitation and put the names in the open space, or as a birthday or thank you card. [...]

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Baby Card and Prayer Blanket

This lavender baby blanket was crocheted by the ladies at our church and then blessed in prayer at a service. They are given to babies within our church and by request for sick babies, or a baby who for whatever reason needs to be wrapped in prayer. I make the card to [...]

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