tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12987495592408728072024-02-20T20:57:09.890-08:00storyrope™Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-23851955803456275832016-09-25T17:50:00.000-07:002016-09-25T18:19:41.936-07:00GOD'S STORY ROPE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">I've been invited to teach in Peru in 2013. My friend Cathy and I will be teaching the process of making story ropes to multiple women's groups in Lima and Piura.</span></span> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've made and taught the making of story ropes since going to Rwanda and working with the genocide survivors.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It is an effective way to process ones story - often a story that is too painful to tell, thus never been shared. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisauCmR9NVbXNxbcbPueO4yoZeRj2PbzMDwSjnr0ndfOpX07WWI2os467-OZbetEgxbznZEl1iOnyH4PoYjpPUhrcoQJZYHt9_Td_rojdJhuR6KlBiAXk-BSHRFTfN4bddPy8EzY180WY/s1600/take+the+pic2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisauCmR9NVbXNxbcbPueO4yoZeRj2PbzMDwSjnr0ndfOpX07WWI2os467-OZbetEgxbznZEl1iOnyH4PoYjpPUhrcoQJZYHt9_Td_rojdJhuR6KlBiAXk-BSHRFTfN4bddPy8EzY180WY/s320/take+the+pic2.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am presenting it a bit different this time. I'm creating new rope - God's Story Rope to tell His story and how our painful stories fit into his story. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm going to be creating the story rope on the face of a quilt. This is all new & I'm feeling my creative way! </span></span><br />
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Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-53027453447859740872015-01-22T17:01:00.000-08:002016-09-25T13:11:22.923-07:00STORYROPES™ ON THE HOPI RESERVATION<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJe5p6NG-6lb0l-gD3pQLd7rqeUB4BvMXUn_8IiT7r56ouI3VsC8UWeGMkKH2V3KZ-9iYYckqoiXZ0PxM_N7aCmBb2ackSwfr4_jdVAxMFjJT5aPHKDBY6LD5dAIdWOnxfzrVBh6Q2aLc/s1600/AZ_Hopi_grp_tbl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJe5p6NG-6lb0l-gD3pQLd7rqeUB4BvMXUn_8IiT7r56ouI3VsC8UWeGMkKH2V3KZ-9iYYckqoiXZ0PxM_N7aCmBb2ackSwfr4_jdVAxMFjJT5aPHKDBY6LD5dAIdWOnxfzrVBh6Q2aLc/s1600/AZ_Hopi_grp_tbl.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1st of 2 posts</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">My friend, Eva, told me about an outreach on a Hopi reservation near Flagstaff, Arizona in 2012. It was there where she and her team shared the storyrope™ process </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">at the community center with mostly older women. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On her team was a West African woman - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cutting materials as another worked on her rope.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since then, at least eight of those women have used storyrope™ in small groups in their respective states of TN, WA, TX, and OK.</span></span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A vital part of the work I do, along with team members, is praying through women's stories as they share the art they have made. The art often reveals dark, traumatic or shameful parts of one's story. Wrong choices, words, actions are confessed. There are people to forgive, through prayer, as one's story is shared. Abusers are brought to Jesus and the work He has done on the cross. Jesus has died for each of our sins, and for every sin committed against us. Justice has been done. Payment for wrongs have been made on the cross. </span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One friend recently stopped me in the middle of the parking lot. She made her storyrope™ a couple of weeks earlier. She was so excited to tell me - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"I get it now - bringing things to Jesus - and now I CAN FEEL HIS LOVE!"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> We hugged, and I just stood there and thanked God for His kindness, mercy and grace. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thecreativecall.net/mc-blog/training-leaders-with-story-collage"><b>read Marcia's full post</b></a></span><br />
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Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-60608195295773656692015-01-16T14:30:00.000-08:002016-09-25T13:18:12.632-07:0083 WOMEN AT A STORYROPE™ RETREAT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>In October, 2014, <a href="http://www.truestoriesministries.com/">TRUE Stories Ministries</a> partnered with a church in Tulsa, Oklahoma to consider <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">"His Story – Your Story"</span></i> with a group of 83 women at a storyrope™ day retreat. </b></span><br />
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Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-4477849318238580392015-01-13T05:48:00.000-08:002016-09-25T13:18:41.235-07:00TRAINING VOLUNTEERS WORKING WITH HUMAN TRAFFICKING<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This post is from Tammie in the Seattle, Washington area, pictured below.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">In November 2014 I trained a team of volunteers on Storyropes™. This team is a group of volunteers working with a human trafficking non profit. They host retreats at the local Juvenile Detention Centers here in the Seattle Area.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">It's been incredible to hear the stories and see the healing taking place - by these kids telling their stories. It's not written but it's a form of art using scraps of material and ribbon.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Story is so important. It's where the healing starts! Thanks Dan Allender and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"> </span><a href="http://theallendercenter.org/" style="color: #134f5c;">The Allender Center</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">for the work you do.</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There's Marcia on the right, wearing her storyrope™in Haiti, after teaching a workshop.</span><br />
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believing there will be follow up and life transformations that began in the Story
Rope process. </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">One pastor's wife really </span><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">got it</span></b></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"> and will lead
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">At the end of the workshop, the women were invited to put their story rope on God's story rope, affirming that they are each loved by God and part of His story. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">For both posts click:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://storyrope.blogspot.com/search/label/1-SR%20India%20%28Cathy%29">Cathy does StoryRopes in India</a></span></b></span><br />
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Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-12973655326458633892014-04-13T16:37:00.003-07:002016-09-25T13:23:53.178-07:00INDIA - HUNGRY FOR TRUTH IN STORY<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"Generally the women of India are hungry for Truth in the Story. Breaking thru the traditions and lies of their belief system takes time." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"I taught God's Story with the great wedding coming soon. Also I taught that in the many, many gods in the world, there is only ONE God who LOVES each woman AND calls her by name."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"The strategy I used was to identify key women, strong in the Word and in prayer and then spend a day with them before we brought together a group of 100 women."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"I prepared them to facilitate small groups of 4-6 women within the large group in listening to each others stories, pray over each others stories and then asking them to follow up with those women in days/weeks to come."</span><br />
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Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-9572491907407664002014-04-08T14:25:00.001-07:002016-09-25T13:24:15.010-07:00PARIS: SHE HAD A GLOW ABOUT HER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-5344067305372199092014-04-07T04:24:00.001-07:002016-09-25T13:24:47.261-07:00PARIS: JUST NOT ENOUGH TIME<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVJwH068JzFMaLn19uVoDg3AbBsNKpuP3exwC09hIO6sil0j1xi7C2ywWsn0nhb2y6UfQI4M3qbnUB3srC5ss_PpIS4AWcUKUceFJT7MfxZVQpHsMaJYNngUwq__3JVRzt5o6Ub_-SKrE/s1600/mme_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVJwH068JzFMaLn19uVoDg3AbBsNKpuP3exwC09hIO6sil0j1xi7C2ywWsn0nhb2y6UfQI4M3qbnUB3srC5ss_PpIS4AWcUKUceFJT7MfxZVQpHsMaJYNngUwq__3JVRzt5o6Ub_-SKrE/s1600/mme_1.jpg" width="220" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By now it was very late. The evening was coming to a close and <a href="http://storyrope.blogspot.com/2014/04/paris-begin-at-beginning.html">we had heard only one story</a>. This happens. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The elderly madame was getting ready to leave. She had lived a long time. I wished I had heard her story. She had worked intently on her story rope. What was her story? I would not get to hear it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I sat with her a few minutes at the end. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The madame spoke only French so with limited translation available, I told her I was so glad she came. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gave her postcards of the quilts I had shown the group. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cards would be a token of thanks for coming and a remembrance of our evening together. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love hearing the stories of the elderly. They have lived through so much history. I still regret that I missed her story.</span><br />
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Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-73138361792393277702014-04-04T13:20:00.000-07:002016-09-25T13:25:12.919-07:00PARIS: TONIGHT SHE WOULD SLEEP IN PEACE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiay5o61Q4hP4NFbArh6PCPhuuRxNQCMKtAIoDPMU6_0lK0sgSblkC_KFAmqWTRRaf2TaEsJMT_15ari0Kl5RDF2U8CjxgjlU7cpvP0yNyjYCmXiFIk_XWIPHDRePkp6O1hwp7LfuUIcmI/s1600/Jos-holds_up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiay5o61Q4hP4NFbArh6PCPhuuRxNQCMKtAIoDPMU6_0lK0sgSblkC_KFAmqWTRRaf2TaEsJMT_15ari0Kl5RDF2U8CjxgjlU7cpvP0yNyjYCmXiFIk_XWIPHDRePkp6O1hwp7LfuUIcmI/s1600/Jos-holds_up.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>That evening one of our new friends held up her finished story rope and excitedly started to tell her story BUT she began in the middle of her rope! Now that she had everyone's attention, they stopped working on their ropes and encouraged her to begin at the beginning. She did and ended her story in tears.</b></span><br />
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Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-76007748221199431632014-04-02T16:01:00.000-07:002016-09-25T13:25:35.913-07:00PARIS: THOUGHTFUL • SLOW • DELIBERATE PROCESS<br />
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</span>Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-60250015715147140242014-03-28T09:11:00.001-07:002016-09-25T13:26:08.499-07:00PARIS: RIBBONS & BUTTONS ON THE COFFEE TABLE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-cmuZdD6IREyXSJgq4gmPK9sxR0m4aUR_IoAf1Biy0Fr31hvDXiIjMBJXy4jPV3rcoDUmRBq7EYu4FwlVZ5GHg85r-SOAVtpAAOKcwWxrQwULnEZt2uspieUbWPvdTV3gOuzfhknw6Xk/s1600/MorJap_SR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-cmuZdD6IREyXSJgq4gmPK9sxR0m4aUR_IoAf1Biy0Fr31hvDXiIjMBJXy4jPV3rcoDUmRBq7EYu4FwlVZ5GHg85r-SOAVtpAAOKcwWxrQwULnEZt2uspieUbWPvdTV3gOuzfhknw6Xk/s1600/MorJap_SR.jpg" width="276" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Creating began around the coffee table. What stories did those ribbons & buttons represent? This group represented different nationalities, each on a very different life path and somehow they all landed in Paris. It was getting late. Would there be time for their stories? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>to be continued</b></span>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://storyrope.blogspot.com/search/label/1-SR%20Paris">click for all 3 PARIS posts</a></span></span>Marge Malwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08613110544288355039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298749559240872807.post-48303952175422195722014-03-26T15:14:00.002-07:002016-09-25T13:27:02.883-07:00PARIS: TELLING MY STORY<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj110ypldD3D6S6lzrkcVdhJiagsWJvo_rVmKTL_Swq3bhC83vrroPhjp-VRmBiKAsQuG1HWWlEvakYfv91cCiHIGA4Iz_mF_6MKUrwjZPlBplRhjIfLnGhkVqFNkqk8RjXOEp5fZXixvc/s1600/Marge_SR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj110ypldD3D6S6lzrkcVdhJiagsWJvo_rVmKTL_Swq3bhC83vrroPhjp-VRmBiKAsQuG1HWWlEvakYfv91cCiHIGA4Iz_mF_6MKUrwjZPlBplRhjIfLnGhkVqFNkqk8RjXOEp5fZXixvc/s1600/Marge_SR.jpg" width="388" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Fall 2012</span> <a href="http://storyrope.blogspot.com/2014/03/paris-evening-of-building-friendships.html">continued from 1st post</a></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">After sharing several quilts, I brought out my StoryRope. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With it I told my own story - very transparently - for that is key.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">As I touched each ribbon, fabric strip and button, I shared what each represented: </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;"><i>• being raised in a volatile alcholic home • artistic talent • early depression • the importance of the ocean • becoming a Christ-follower • more depression • college art education major • marriage • children • more depression • a friend dying suddenly • going into a very long deep depression • and on...</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As I moved down the rope telling my story, Martha noticed how the women leaned forward, one shook her head-seeming to identify with my struggles.</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I finished up with the very slow process of getting better and how God brought <i>beauty out of ashes</i>: I discovered art-quiltmaking -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> giving rise to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> a new purpose - taking me all over the world - sharing my art and story and helping others to find God in their dark, hopeless stories too and teaching others how to do this.</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It brings a smile to my face every time I see that <a href="http://storyrope.blogspot.com/search/label/Story%20Ropes%20China">Peggy</a> has returned to China again and does the StoryRopes early in her teaching. There she is in the middle of a class, with her glowing students holding their StoryRopes!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A couple years ago Peggy 'found me' through a friend. She was leaving for China and wanted to use this process on her teaching trip. We emailed back and forth and set up a time to talk about the process of making StoryRopes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She also did her 'homework' by looking around this blog which has a lot of who, what, when, where and why - kind of info. Creative Storying experiences from every continent are listed in the right index. I continue to add to this list. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Quipus were the main system employed by the ancient Inca culture to record information and events. The knotted cords were used to record countable information. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">The colors, knots and distances between the knots enabled those who used the quipus to identify the type of object or the characteristics of the population being recorded.</span></span><br />
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