endings
Tuesday one of my very favorite customers came to the store with some terrible news. She’s been fighting a battle with cancer for a long, long time and it seems the cancer has won. With very limited time she is preparing for the end of her life.
“God, I just want to knit.” She told me. “I mean God I just want to knit.” And then she said something to me that I will remember for the rest of my life. “You have been such an unexpected blessing to me. I don’t even have words to describe, but you’ve been such an unexpected blessing.”
I can’t even begin to grasp the loss that so many of us will be experiencing, but until then, I have one recurring thought:
Can the simple act of knitting be a gift from God? I think maybe so.
Category: ouch 8 comments »
December 7th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Wow, that is so touching. It’s amazing to be a blessing in someone elses life, and I have many times felt that knitting is a gift from God. It has gotten me thorugh sad times and deaths, and pulled me thorough. I have knitted for others in their sad times. Currently I am kniting a pair of socks for my grandmother who just lost our grandfather to cancer in september. Its one way I can help her to deal with the pain. With love in every stitch.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Knitting is most certianly a gift from God. So are sunshine, snow, and cranky children that stop midway through a sob to giggle.
And cold medicince – did I mention the cold medicine?
December 7th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Yes…knitting is a gift from God, as are friends. I’m heartbroken for you and your friend.
December 7th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
That is just so hear breaking.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Allie, you’re are the gift, not the knitting. And I’m not saying that because I’m an anti-knitight it’s because you truly are… in more ways than one.
December 8th, 2006 at 7:57 am
oh wow. tears are rolling down my cheeks. i want everyone i care about to know about what i just read. my father died of cancer one year ago on monday. that day was so hard to get through because he loved life and he loved the holidays. i wished i had seen this then, but it is not to late, because i will send them to your site to see this. thank you so much. your words were so comforting. you just don’t know how much.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:19 am
What an amazing thing to say and have said to you. So many people feel things like this, but are never able to voice it, for whatever reason.
I haven’t been able to keep up with my blog reading lately, but I surely hope this comment gives you a little bit of something to hang onto during the crazy things that seem to be happening…
December 8th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Wow.
Knitting is a gift from God.
It really is.