talk about Make

I shared my ideas about Make with a group of fellow Quakers last week. I wasn't terribly articulate, but I think I said what I meant to say. I felt a little misunderstood, though, and I didn't want to dominate the conversation with corrections since I felt the greater point was made. I wanted to share that I am excited about handwork/sustainability(being able to care for yourself, not really having anything to do with "green"). The reason this is important is because we are loosing it in our current culture generally for lack of need, aided by the industrial revolution, and the ability to mass manufacture at a "low cost". (Low cost is bullshit, though, because we are abusing humans in order to get our cheap goods.) We are able to buy so many things that 150 years ago were hand made or more labor intensive and much harder to come by. If I had to knit all my own socks, I wouldn't have but a few pairs. The part that I didn't feel was as well understood are the reasons why. A middle aged woman said that all her children were doing things the old fashioned way because things go in cycles, and she had cloth diapered and put food away when she was young. It's not a cycle because this loss of anything real has only been taking place since the industrial revolution, and really only in the last 40 years or so. That's when time began to speed up at an alarming rate. Another middle aged woman made a terrific point: this great loss really started to boom during the women's liberation movement, when women didn't have time to teach these skills to their children.
So these people are meeting to hear from God if they should start a work in this area (sustainability/handcraft, etc). I was a little discouraged because while corporate work in faith is imperative, we need to be ministering everyday in the way we are called. I work with my hands for the greater glory. Maybe it took me a little minuet to figure out that's what I was called to, but just because I didn't get it doesn't mean it hasn't been happening from the start. I guess that's the grace I need to remember concerning my Friends.