The cross we bear

This is a banner in the St Katharine's Chapel at church. It was designed and made by a quilter called Gail Lawther who is based in Worthing now. I have only ever communicated with her by email but she has done 6 banners for church now and they are all wonderful in very different ways.

This one is for Texture Tuesday in the August Challenge. She tries to base her designs on stained glass window effects and used some wonderful materials. The gold in this one is so shiny and rich but the one I really love is the material of the cross - it's a beautiful white with iridescent glints in it Which are very difficult to show in a photo. It's very tactile too!

I was at church this afternoon to attend the funeral of a lady who bought me my first nursery rhyme book when I was two. She died aged 81 on 23 July - the 42nd anniversary of the day her husband fell off the Matterhorn and broke his back. She has cared for him from that day as although he taught himself to walk with sticks again, he was able to do very little else without her help. As you can imagine, life has now become especially difficult for him. He has had a life long love affair with the mountains and he now has his hardest mountain ever to climb aged 88.
This is Len's favourite psalm.

Psalm 121 King James Version (KJV)

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore