From the current issue of Today's Christian Woman Newsletter, In the fall of 2005, Shirley Meisinger of Wilton, Iowa, was diagnosed with breast cancer. When this 70something grandmother began chemotherapy, a group of women from Shirley's church gave her a hand-knitted "prayer shawl." The simple rectangular shawl "got her through that time," says her daughter, Laura Rose, 48. "After her treatments, Mom lay on her recliner covered up with it and felt comforted." The shawl was fashioned by members of a knitting group at the United Methodist Church of Wilton. Unlike traditional Jewish prayer shawls—tassel-edged garments worn during synagogue prayer services—these shawls are prayed over as they're knitted and are meant to wrap the recipient in love.
For the rest of this inspiring article, please go to http://www.christianitytoday.com/tcw/2007/sepoct/2.26.html
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