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The Queen Quilt

     Once again, the quintessential Queen Quilt Goddess visited me in my dreams.  She is a welcome dreamscape guest as she brings in such a remarkably loving and optimistic presence.  I met her first during the night of July 22, 2008.  Therein an exquisite quilt made up of Chinese red triangles and cobalt diamond quilt blocks set against a crisp white background stretched out before me.  My strong impression was to observe and fully appreciate each thread of its lovely stitchery.  When I asked the dream the name of the quilt, its goddess appeared and radiantly responded, “This is the QUEEN QUILT and I am its Goddess energy-it is designed for healing, creative expression, standing in one’s own comic radiance, and far too many aspects to mention just now.  She did however impart that each diamond represented the curative values found within the art of meditation whereas each triangle denoted the full circle of lasting wellness.  As I looked closer, marvelous golden threads of circles surrounded the diamonds.  The white background represented its pure divinity.

     In my waking time, I thought about this dream’s message.  In retrospect, my previous weeks included redecorating my website to a new ‘décor’ reflecting my emphasis on Being Green.  In addition, the 8th Annual Butterfly Gathering date was nearing and with my overly active schedule-remodeling our home, evolving The Home Whisperer book into its 2nd generation into its new version titled Environmentally Healing Grace and Beauty Realized, and of course, my ongoing love of travel and earth and heaven design consultation, I was thinking about having a virtual celebration. I also processed my beautiful niece Julie having sent me The Comfort Queen’s delightful website for possible inspiration.  Hmmmm…to me comfort and quilt feel very similar as each denote deep ease and calm.  I was beginning to see the thread or stream of consciousness…I like this! 

      Plus for several months, my dreams referenced quilting bees.  As a child, I recall that one of my great aunt’s actually had a quilting frame installed on her living room ceiling and whenever there was to be a wedding, a birth, an anniversary, or simply a time to celebrate, my great aunts Lilly, Ebb, Lola, Berlin, & Fatty (really-that was her nickname and she wasn’t fat at all!) plus cousin Gay would lower this grand frame and within days or weeks, a remarkable quilt was ready to be gifted.  I loved listening to their incredibly humorous childhood stories.  There were fourteen children born to their parents William and Samantha Rogers so their tales of resourcefulness never ceased to amaze me.  Quilting was a time of shared love, expanded community, sisterhood, the giving of one’s self and of course, of divine love.

     Threading all of my recent and long ago experiences together, I have now re-christened our annual Butterfly Luncheon into a Queen Quilting Bee. Although there will continue to be a yearly celebration for intention-setting, I have and still am being given a quilting bee series to share. These will appear weekly on my blog—oh boy! This seemed quite interesting because I have not been a faithful blogger.  However I am duty-bound because I promised the Quilting Queen Goddess to be not only a dedicated quilter, but also a faithful steward/liaison of her wisdom. 

     So here we go….as your Butterfly letter shared, the first wisdom block honors the Goddess Within EVERYONE.  To reiterate, we MUST see the divine in one another-this is called namaste’. This word has Hindu roots and yet for centuries it has been a global salutation, thank-you and farewell.  It also means to bow to the divinity within another.  This golden thread stitches the beauty of the Queen Quilt into the gift of seeing others only through the eyes of Divine Love.  Divine Love fills our hearts, minds, and deeds with the great joy of uplifting, encouraging and supporting our fellow sisters (and brothers) in truth.  “Faults” are truly here as an opportunity for growth and the only way we will ever notice “them” in another person is if they first exist within our own being. Whenever we see anything less-than-divine about another, regard this as an opportunity for our own path to be deepened, broadened and expanded.  As our perception encompasses the deeper meaning of namaste’, this wisdom enables us to not only be a blessing but to also be blessed.  This circuitous flow enjoins us to the river of peace. Living from the inside out and from this place of focused intention we are generously given the gift of stitching our own elegant and cosmically perfect Queen Quilt-one golden thread at a time.

Affirmation and Proclamation:  I live in the comfort, ease and grace of Divine Love.

NAMASTE’, 

Sharyn