“It is Finished”

In my spare time, I’ve been trying to sew quilt fronts for our church’s Lutheran Women’s Ministry League. 

This is actually the front of my Snoopy quilt that I sewed six years ago, but have yet to finish. 

All year long, these ladies sew and put together quilts. Every fall, the organization ships them out to communities living in poverty or recovering from disasters worldwide. 

My mom worked on these quilts for years. And when I went to Kenya in 2019 and visited my Compassion child, the ladies donated one of their special quilts for me to deliver to Mueni.

Recently, I’ve been working on my second quilt top of the year. It’s always a much slower process than it should be, and I really give those ladies credit for sewing as many of them as they do.

Last Saturday night, I had a dream where I had just finished sewing a quilt top. It was in varied colors of blue and reminded me of the ocean. I had made it for my daughter, Val.

Val was at my house in the dream, and I showed it to her. I apologized that it wasn’t quite together yet. I asked if she’d like it finished by tying it together with yarn, which I could do myself, or by stitching it together, which I would ask a friend of mine to do who has a sewing machine specifically for quilting.

Val looked at the fabric, deep in thought. And then said, “Look!”

I looked at the quilt, and it was complete, both tied with yarn and machine-stitched. It was more beautiful than I would have ever thought, and I took no credit for it.

Then Val said, “It is finished.”

So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. (John 19:30, New King James Version)

As you probably know, those were the last words Jesus said on the cross, before He descended into hell for three days, before rising again on Sunday morning.  Later, He was lifted to heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father for eternity.  

Those words in my dream were a confirmation that my sweet baby girl is in heaven for eternity as well.  

Couldn't find any pictures of Val with a quilt or even a decent one with her Grandma. But my mom took this one of Val at her house a very long time ago and it seems to capture what I wanted in a picture.