In a Card from a Sister Friend, she quoted Constantine Peter Cavafy
"As you set out in search of Ithaka pray that your journey be long, full of adventures, full of awakenings. Do not fear the monsters of old...you will not meet them in your travels if your thoughts are exhalted and remain high, if authentic passions stir your mind, body, and spirit. You will not encounter fearful monsters if you do not carry them within your soul, if your soul doesn't see them up in front of you."
I love that we will not meet the monsters of old...the old lessons we learned are not recycled.
Lessons not learned grow bigger trying desperately to gain our attention, to bring into our awareness the things we are doing to hurt ourselves and others; to raise us from fear into Love.
The center of this quilt was from a wall hanging I had made my parents in the very early stages of my quilting. It hung in their porch, and one winter while they were in Texas, the mice chewed the quilt fabric surrounding this saying. I took it back and a few summers ago turned it back into a wallhanging for me. (our estrangement didn't bode for gift exchanges anymore)
What is so foretelling is the saying on this quilt.
"May those who love us, Love us. And those that don't love us, May God turn their hearts. And if he doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so we will know them by their limping."
My mother had used a walking cane to hang this on the wall.
I am getting better at discerning love.
