Friendship

There's a tea cozy in my Etsy shop named "Carey Takes Tea With Me" after my dear friend of many years. Carey and I have been through so much life together. I'm so thankful for her precious friendship.

Her husband, Russ, gave us a very special Christmas gift last year. We each got an envelope containing gift certificates for lunch out together, a shopping trip to our favorite yarn shop, (what a great guy!) and this beautiful poem he wrote:

Twenty and some years ago,

two strangers met and began

purling their first stitches.

God had given each a skein

from which live stitches

could be pulled from the

center of their lives.

A swatch was knitted,

the sample of the beautiful

friendship that was to come.

Over time the pattern

which formed, sometimes

used a garter stitch, sometimes

ribbing, and now and then,

a dropped stitch was found

that only frogging could mend.

But through it all,

the Master Knitter gauged

the rows of their lives,

placing memorable stitch

markers along the way

and brought enduring increase.