Nothing Is Wasted

Recently a friend told me about going to thrift shops and asking if there were any old bags of clothes that they couldn’t sell, because she wanted to gather the usable fabric and make patchwork designs for pillows, quilts, wall coverings and window treatments. I thought that was quite a novel idea. She said there were tons of clothes that the thrift shops throw away because they aren’t saleable, and they told her to help herself.

As I read an article by Barbara Sher about our needing to do what we love, I thought of those remnants of material that most people would see as throwaways, but this friend saw as pieces that would create works of art.

Everything we do in our life has purpose. Nothing within our realm of experience has been wasted, and when we recognize that it isn’t always for the obvious reasons that we’ve done many of the things we’ve done, and look at our journey a little differently, we can craft of those scraps of experience new forms and possibilities. Only when we are stuck in limited thinking are we bound by the obvious. When we look to the subtleties within our lives, nothing is wasted. Things only need to be re-worked into different patterns to become a treasure!
KJ