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“What does the Lord require of you, but
to act justly,
and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”
Micah 6:8
Over 300 years ago the Amish came forth out
of the Mennonite community. Today thousands of these godbearing
people live in Lancaster county: an hour or so away from my
home in Baltimore. On a Tuesday or a Thursday I’d sneak
away from all other obligations to spend the day with the
Amish quilters of Intercourse, Pa. It was so easy to love
them and their way, so exciting to see and to admire and to
learn their quilts of vibrant simplicity.
It is no wonder that some of my first quilts
were done in the Amish style: a style which finds God in all
things: soil, corn soup, horses, prayer, dress, song. May
I too find you God even in things I create, in Amish quilts
criss crossed with eight pointed stars, with borders that
are prairie pointed, done with hand stitches whose simplicity
and symmetry might show you forth so that you my God may “flame
out like shinning from shook foil”. (G.M. Hopkins)
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