I just realized I have never talked about my life’s biggest mission, the Prayer Quilt (c). I hold the copyright on this item. [ I came up with the idea from a dream. I believe that God sent me this dream and this project, which I have carried out for eleven years. It has been adopted by the NC Baptist Convention as a ministry.]
The “A Promise to Pray” Story
My good friend Libby was diagnosed with lung cancer. We knew it was very serious and I wanted to do something very special for Libby, to let her know how much she meant to me. Although Libby was a wonderful person, an RN–certainly a caring profession–and the mother of two great kids, and a wife, she was not a Christian.
I live in NC, Libby in Marietta, Georgia. I was going down to visit for the first time since her diagnosis. I was stressed because I had nothing important to take her as a symbol of our friendship over many years. I went to bed one evening but was up again very early, sewing. I was making a special quilt, one that could be signed by all Libby’s friends and family, letting her know how much we cared for her and her current sitution.
We all wrote that we were praying for Libby, which was true. We knew prayer was going to be her strength and ours. Truly I thought the quilt was a good idea, but never could I have imagined how much it meant to Libby and all of us that loved Libby. From the prayers coming as a result of this Promise to Pray, Libby became a Christian, as did her husband, Blake. The quilt did sustain Libby, to be able to see and feel the love we had for her was a huge help as she endured 20 months of treatment for lung cancer.
Libby lived and loved her A Promise to Pray quilt and was buried with it too. It brings me great joy to say Libby’s quilt started a movement. Many people asked me to make a quilt for someone they loved, whether it was cancer, divorce, burns, premature infant, almost everyone has a need for prayers. I started a company Quilts R Love to produce these quilts and they are sold through Maddox Oncology Products, Inc. Just type Prayer Quilt into google and see how many hits you get. So many support groups have adopted the idea.
The only thing I ask is that the groups not make money from the sale of the quilt. Give them or sell them for the cost of materials if you cannot get donations. (Should you have quilting material to donate, please share it with us) More than that, consider honoring a loved one with A Promise to Pray Prayer Quilt. It is the most important thing you can do for those you love when they are going through a difficult time–offer them emotional support.
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