I'm off this week, so I've been trying to get into project mode. I wanted to make another apron and prayer cap. This morning I opened my sewing box only to discover I needed more needles for the sewing machine. It was raining hard, so I wasn't in any mood to go to the fabric store. I knew I wouldn't have another chance to get to the store before Friday.
In spite of the fact that my sewing machine was out of commission, I wanted to sew. I knew this wasn't impatience talking. It was something else.
So I did something that most people would say is crazy.
I made an entire prayer cap by hand.
To most people, this may be the craziest, most backwards thing a person could choose to do. I'm sure most people reading my blog would say I'm completely backwards and out of touch with reality to be choosing such a life. And I would have to respectfully but firmly disagree. Hear me when I say this:
Americans are consumed by things that put us out of touch with reality.
We can buy whatever we want whenever we want it. Most people don't have the faintest idea where their possessions came from, or how they were made, or whether the people who made them got a fair wage and decent working conditions.
Like Eve, we are getting everything we want. And it's destroying us.
As I sat stitching my prayer cap by hand, I realized something.
This IS the reality for most of the world today. This WAS the reality in America for hundreds of years before the sewing machine was invented.
And it's the complete opposite of backwards.
