Prayer flag

My friend Vivika Hansen Denegre started a prayer flag project for herself; she is making one prayer flag a day for a month. Click here to see what she has created. Because she feels deeply about this project, she is asking others to join. I signed up. Here is my first flag:

My prayer is for a cure. While I pray for a cure for all my friends and family who have or had cancer, lupus, PLS, AIDS, and other diseases, this prayer is specifically for a cure for cystic fibrosis. Two of my grandchildren were born with it. Advances in medicine, rigorous daily treatments, and lots of drugs have increased life expectancy. However, it remains a fatal disease.

The term "65 Roses" comes from the mispronunciation of cystic fibrosis by a child who suffered from the disease, and the rose has since become a representative symbol for the disease.

And so, Anna and Aidan, Holly, Tiffany, Morgan, and all the others who suffer now or who have not survived, I send up this prayer for you.


And here are the details of the flag:

The hand-painted fabrics are my own, while the others are a commercial rose print and a rose-motif lace.