Denver Prayer Blanket

This prayer blanket was made in Colorado while I was there on staff for the 2011 One Way Street Denver Festival.  Sometimes one prayer blanket triggers a connection with many people in prayer, a powerful support, lifting up the needs of another person. 

 And so this went around the room, with many people intervening on behalf of someone else. 

Whether it is a prayer blanket or a crocheted prayer shawl, prayed for by one person as it is made, and blessed by clergy, or a prayer quilt that is made by many hands then prayed in community and blessed by the pastor, the bases of it all is prayer and intercessory asking God to bless, provide for or heal the recipient. 

What's Your Excuse...Hard To Pray?

Whether you're making a prayer blanket, prayer shawl, or prayer quilt, it might be the praying that's the stumbling block for you.

Praying can be difficult or easy, depending on how you frame it in your mind. If you think prayer is difficult because you’ve heard others pray and you think, I could never pray like that, then praying will be difficult for you.

If you see prayer as simply speaking to someone you love, it will be much easier.

God isn’t interested in fancy words, he’s interested in connecting with you...with whoever's praying.

“... Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.”

-The Message, Eugene H. Peterson  -Matthew 6