Sunday 8th February - this multicoloured life

Cilla Black singing  'I can sing a rainbow ' (if you are one of the people who dislike this song because it isn't a proper rainbow, please just, skip past! I happen to like it, and anyway those colours have all appeared in my knitting!)

Every page in my diary this month has complaints about grey, damp, dreary, wet, dreich weather. However if I look back over this week, it has been full of bright rainbow colours.

The slippers I made.

The 2By2 patch Ang did;

This one's Ang's, she sent me a  Ark, which might be more appropriate considering the amount of rain we've had so far this year. We drove over to Midhurst for tea with 'the children' (what do you call them when they are fully adults?) and the River Arun had filled the fields on both sides.

I've persuaded myself to start sewing up my rainbow cardigan. Remember this?

(My original plan was to finish it in time for Christmas...)

I shared this prayer with Ang because I thought it fitted in with our collaborations so well;

O living God, draw all the fragments of my life into the bright mosaic of your love;

weave all the tangled threads of my desires into the tapestry you are spreading, like a rainbow, on the loom of the world;

and help me celebrate the many facets and the dazzling colours of your peace.

 It's written by Julie M. Hulme, no 72 in '1000 prayers' collected by Angela Ashwin.

Ang has posted a truly beautiful version on her blog! I'm very tempted to print it out to keep a copy.

What really caught my attention was the final phrase - 'the dazzling colours of your peace'. Now that is something new to think about; I've always used soft, gentle, pastel colours in my mind when considering the idea of 'peace'.

I'm taking a day or so to think through and consider each line in turn.