Today at our Monday morning women’s Bible study group, we made prayer beads. My friend, CL, and I brought all our supplies and taught everyone how to make them. Everyone ended up making a set to take home. It was interesting to me to see the color and bead combinations that other people chose. I realize that I too often put my creativity into a box of doing things a certain way. One woman got to the end of her prayer beads and realized that in one section, she had only strung 6 “week beads” instead of 7. I would have been dismayed at having to restring the beads, but I would have. Lord knows, I’ve re-strung probably more than a dozen sets of the ones I’ve already made because of small mistakes that I couldn’t let ride. However, the woman today said, “That’s okay. I’m not going to re-string it.” We laughed about how it could be like quilt-makers in years past would deliberately sew a mistake into a quilt since “Only God is perfect.” Still, that one section of 6 beads would have bothered me every time I looked at the prayer beads. I hope I can become more relaxed about things like that.

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