Denver Prayer Blanket

This prayer blanket was made in Colorado while I was there on staff for the 2011 One Way Street Denver Festival.  Sometimes one prayer blanket triggers a connection with many people in prayer, a powerful support, lifting up the needs of another person. 

 And so this went around the room, with many people intervening on behalf of someone else. 

Whether it is a prayer blanket or a crocheted prayer shawl, prayed for by one person as it is made, and blessed by clergy, or a prayer quilt that is made by many hands then prayed in community and blessed by the pastor, the bases of it all is prayer and intercessory asking God to bless, provide for or heal the recipient. 

What's Your Excuse...Hard To Pray?

Whether you're making a prayer blanket, prayer shawl, or prayer quilt, it might be the praying that's the stumbling block for you.

Praying can be difficult or easy, depending on how you frame it in your mind. If you think prayer is difficult because you’ve heard others pray and you think, I could never pray like that, then praying will be difficult for you.

If you see prayer as simply speaking to someone you love, it will be much easier.

God isn’t interested in fancy words, he’s interested in connecting with you...with whoever's praying.

“... Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.”

-The Message, Eugene H. Peterson  -Matthew 6

Prayer Blankets for Twins



Cindy Lewchik Wagner, Realtor http://www.cindywagner.com/

Cindy invited me to give a program for women of St Paul's Church in Kensington, CT who make prayer shawls.  It was a privilege to be there to perform with Daisy, my peoploid and tell about the prayer blanket ministry, especially the stories of miracles. Cindy immediately thought of a young boy in her church who suffered a chronic disease. She made the blanket above for him. And that's Cindy holding it. Cindy is a realtor but she is also an encourager who gives hope through her gifts of prayer blankets.



Cindy made this blanket too.  When she delivered the first blanket to the boy who was sick, his twin brother asked for a blanket as well. So Cindy made a dinosaur blanket for the brother. CINDY YOU ARE AWESOME!!!

To learn how to make prayer blankets, read the previous blog, or follow the directions in the back of the book,  Wrapped in Love by Judy Buch, www.xulonpress.com/bookstore or http://www.amazon.com/ or http://www.barnesandnole.com/

Being Real

What makes someone real?  For most of us, being real is living meaningful lives.

Meaning can seem elusive, because we feel more alive on certain occasions than others, thinking that pleasure in the moment makes us come alive, like falling in love, or surviving extreme danger on an expedition into the Alps. It’s easy to think that feeling totally alive is the same as finding our purpose, living our destiny. I challenge that.

Making prayer blankets may seem boring by comparison to mountain climbing, yet using our talents and skills to comfort those going through tough times, investing in other people’s lives, walking beside them along a harsh path satisfies our need for relevance and purpose. Whether we’re making prayer quilts, or prayer shawls what makes us real is not that we feel like it, but that we consistently use our skills and abilities to bring glory to God. Like Rick Warren says in his book The Purpose Driven Life, “It all starts with God.”