World AIDS Day: Wednesday, December 1st

Open our eyes
to what we need to see,
Open our ears
to what we need to hear,
Open our minds
to what we need to know,
Open our hearts
to what we need to bear,
Open our hands
to what we need to give,
Open our lives
to justice and love.

~Ruth Burgess, Iona World Aids Day prayers

Remember the Mashiah Foundation, ELCA missionaries in Africa who have established a home for women and children with HIV/AIDS and help them develop a livelihood through sewing/quilting.

Story from the ELCA website:
http://www.elca.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Stories-of-Faith-in-Action/2009/Quilting-Transforms-Lives.aspx

Website of the foundation that organizes this work with stories of people touched by their ministries:
http://mashiahfoundation.org/

Blog showing the beautiful quilting and sewing these women do:
http://womenofhopecreations.blogspot.com/