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Wishing for Wishes
Wishes for Sophie
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“When you love
someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” -Elizabeth
Bowen
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To welcome
and celebrate the birth of a baby in China, there is a
tradition
to make a Bai Jia Bei or “100 Good Wishes Quilt”. It is
customary to
invite 100 family members and friends to contribute a
single square of fabric. The 100 pieces of fabric are then
sewn together into a quilt. The quilt contains the luck,
energy, blessings and good wishes of all who contributed.
It is then given to the baby and is intended to be passed
down from generation to generation. We would love to wrap
little Sophie in 100 good wishes when she comes home!
Here’s how to contribute:
1. Choose any 100% cotton fabric that you like. It can be
any color,
pattern or print. The fabric you choose for the quilt will
represent your wish or blessing for Sophie. If there are
several members in your family, please feel free to
contribute a note and piece of fabric for each family
member.
2. Cut an 8” square.
3. On any type of card
or cardstock, write or type your wish for Sophie and
attach a small piece of the same fabric to the card. Your
wish can be a favorite scripture, a quote, a poem,
something written by you or any combination of these. All
wishes will be place in a memory book for her to treasure
throughout her life.
4.
As we want plenty of time to complete Sophie's quilt and
memory book before bringing her home from China, we would
like to collect all fabric and wishes by October 2007.
Thank you for taking the time to help us create this very
special keepsake
for our new daughter. The miracle of her adoption has been
nurtured by
so many of our loving family members and friends. Your
contribution will be so meaningful to her and to our
family. We plan to finish the quilting using red thread to
represent an ancient Chinese belief. We have felt the red
thread, like so many others, pulling our hearts to China.
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“An
invisible red thread connects those who are destined
to meet,
regardless of time, place or circumstance. The
thread may stretch
or tangle, but will never break.” -Ancient Chinese
Proverb
“What makes the difference between wishing and
realizing our wishes?
Lots of things, and it may take months or years for
a wish to come true,
but it’s far more likely to happen when you care so
much about a wish that
you’ll do all you can to make it happen.” –Fred
Rogers
“This is my wish for you. Comfort on difficult days,
smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the
clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm
your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your
eyes to see, friendship to brighten your being,
faith so that you can believe, confidence for when
you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to
accept the truth, love to complete your life.”
–unknown
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“You are never
given a wish without being given the power to make it come
true.” –Richard Bach
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