Strawberries and Cream- Bettering Humanity

Aren't these adorable? These strawberry flowers and berries were created from a pattern by Mary Annunziato called, "Strawberries and Cream". Three friends and I spent a day making them together. I must admit that spending a day on this made me question my purpose in life. I doubted that creating these artificial wool flowers was contributing to the betterment of humanity. I thought that surely there was something more important I could be doing with my time. While I sat with my friends, cutting and gluing, I shared my thoughts about feeling guilty for squandering time like this. "Maybe that's the whole point", my friends said. "It is a day of down time, to relax and refresh ourselves by creating something pretty", they reasoned. 

Anyway, they are super adorable and I enjoyed spending the time with my friends. Two days later, Tess saw them on my windowsill and exclaimed with joy over them. She kept going back to study them and asked if I would show her how to make them and could we have a craft day next week? She wants to make a bouquet of them for her co-worker. 

Now I find it interesting that something I thought was pointless might actually have a purpose. Forming these little woolly flowers and berries is bringing people together and giving them joy. Very soon, my daughter will hand a bouquet of these to someone and pass along more joy. I need to stop looking for the deeper meaning in everything and sometimes just accept things at face value. Sometimes we just need to play and spread joy. That is how we contribute to the betterment of  humanity.