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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Canon Ann Easter

Good morning.

I was brought up in homemade clothes, some were made for me and some were handed down from cousins because home made stuff has a habit of lasting for ever - especially if you don’t like it!

My mother had always knitted and sewn and my father was a trained engineer so when my sister and I needed new clothes, he would create a pattern by copying parts of a dress or a skirt onto newspaper and then my Mum would cut it out of fabric from the market and sew it up. Looking back, they made some lovely outfits but what we really wanted was a dress from a shop…..

But it’s with happy nostalgia that I watch The Great British Sewing Bee. It’s amazing how a dozen very different people – women and men, young and not so young, all sorts of cultures and backgrounds – come together to make gorgeous clothes, some from scratch, some transforming tents or swimming costumes to make something completely new and different.

The sewers compete against the clock and against each other, all aiming to delight the judges and eventually to win the coveted prize of Sewer of the Year. It’s a frantic race to the finish but I am often moved by the contestants who will stop their work to help another person who’s stuck. Creativity is a wonderful gift from God, no doubt, and where would we be without it, but kindness somehow trumps them all.

They say ‘In a world where you can be anything, be kind’

Lord God, help us to be kind today.

Amen.

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