Change is a good thing.
Having worked as a cashier, I know this for a fact. There was one night when I ran out of
quarters, then dimes, then finally nickels.
By the time my shift was over, I had two pennies left. Counting out ninety cents worth of nickels is
not easy, but coming up with ninety cents without any change is imposable. But weather you are changing dollars into
cents or making changes in your life, change is necessary. As the old saying goes, you have to break a
couple of eggs to make an omelet.
One criticism I have heard about quilting is how ridiculous
it seems to take perfectly good fabric, cut it up and sew it back together. I will
admit that this does seem impractical, but sometimes you have to break a couple
of eighths to make a blanket. If the
goal was simply to make something to keep you warm, this could be done with a
whole lot less effort. But quilting is
about more than that, it is an art form.
It is about making something beautiful.
No one who looks at a well crafted log cabin or English paper piecing
quilt could think that the fabric or the time had been wasted.
The truth is, often in order to make something beautiful,
you have to cut up what you already have.
This applies to quilting, writing, and even our lives. Sometimes we have to “cut up” the life we
know in order to make something better.
We have to make changes in order to keep growing. As hard as it is, change is a good
thing. Sometimes we need cut up our
security, cut up our complacency, or even cut up our expectations in order to
make something better. It may be easier
to keep things as they are, but then we will never know what we could have made
from it, what beautiful patterns will emerge or what surprising twists and
turns we might find. The only way to
know what we are capable of is to keep challenging ourselves.
