“Coming Home”
was accepted in the Inspirational category
in the Sacred Threads
“Quilts Exploring Life’s Journeys”
Exhibition runs from
July 11-28, 2019
at
Floris United Methodist Church
13600 Frying Pan Road
Herndon, VA 20171
(703) 793-0026
www.florisumc.org
“Coming Home”
was inspired by Jane Hopper’s Poem
Please Come Home
Please come Home, Please come Home,
Please come Home
Find the place where your feet know where to walk
and follow your own trail home
Please come home, please come home
into your own body
your own vessel your own earth
Please come home into each and every cell
and fully into the space that surrounds you
Please come home, please come home
to trusting yourself and your instincts and your ways
and your knowings and even the particular
quirks of your personality
Please come home, please come home
and once your are firmly there
Please stay home a while and come to a deep rest within
please treasure your home
Please love and embrace your home
please get a deep sense of what it is like to be truly home
Please come home, please come home
and when you are really, really ready
and there is a detectable urge on the out breath,
then please come out.
Please come home and please come
forward
please express who you are to us and please trust us to see you
and hear you and touch you
and recognize you as best we can
Please come home, please come home
and let us know all the nooks and crannies
that are calling to be seen
Please come home and let us know
the more that is there that wants to come out
Please come home please come home
for you belong here now, you belong among us
Please inhabit your place fully so we can
learn from you
from your voice and your ways and your presences
Please come home, please come home
and when you feel yourself home
please welcome us too
For we too forget that we belong and
are welcome
and that we are called to express fully who we are
Please come home, Please come home
you and you and you and me
Please come home, Please come home
Thank you worth for welcoming us
and thank you touch of eyes and ears and skins,
touch of love for welcoming us
May we wake up and remember who we
truly are.
Please come home Please come home
Please come home
The first time I read this poem my heart was touched!
Her words encouraged me to explore the beauty of being myself
and all the creativeness I possess.
This quilt will be traveling around the country after this exhibition.
More details to come.