Saved by Love~a proper re~post of true friends....
Twenty two years ago a quilting friend gave me a gift that helped to "lift me up and over" a very hard time.
While our family was at church on Christmas Eve in 1989, little did we know that we were losing our home, our pets and everything but the clothes we were wearing to church that night, in a house fire.
My husband and I checked into a hotel that Christmas Eve with our three children, to begin the hard work of sorting out the details of our unexpected new life.
My dear friend came over with this quilt that she had just made and had hung on HER wall for the holidays. She took it down from her wall and brought it to us at the hotel.
She said she wanted our family to have a tree when we woke up Christmas morning.
I love my friend and I love this quilt and what it represents to me each time I bring it out for the holidays~ It has never hung on a wall because it is always wrapped around one of us~
As we all know, quilting is more than fabric and thread...
20 years and I still cry....this is a sweet post ♥Firstborn
ReplyDeleteWhat a true testament to the power of love and its healing ways. Thank you for sharing this. Merry Christmas to you and yours. B=)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great story and what a wonderful gift from a friend in your time of need.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this story. This is a real Christmas Story. About love and friendship in hard times. This is how we all should be. Thank you for reminding me.
ReplyDeleteWhat a hard time in your life and what a wonderful FRIEND, enjoy her.Merry Christmas!!!
ReplyDeleteLife can throw us challenges but with wonderful friends to send cheer and little tree quilts it's nice to know you can make it through. I love this story.
ReplyDeleteOh that was so sweet of her what a. Great friend. And thanks for makin my cry. I'm so sorry though to hear you had a horrible Christmas.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely story. Thank you for sharing it with us. I would like to think we all have a friend that would give us comfort when we most need it.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness.....I want to ask but what happened next! How did you ever recover?
ReplyDeleteGreat Christmas memory.....what a precious quilt indeed.
Happy sewing and Merry Christmas
What a wonderful story of love. Merry Christmas! blessings, marlene
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