It's about love.

This is the first section for our Mother Earth – Sacred Ground quilt. It’s based on a picture that has been the home page for my teaching site (www.gerryeitner.com) for some years now. I wanted this to set the energy for this project, and yet, I’m not a quilter. Kirstan Shelton, who has studied intensely with me, suggested that her grandmother Valentina Roth might be interested. Indeed she was, and will be sending in her own story of her experience in doing this. It’s powerful.

I had been the “shepherdess” of the highly successful Children’s Cloth of Many Colors for 19 years or so.  The project started when our organization donated and dedicated a peace pole for the Pentagon.  It still stands there in the prayer room.  I received Divine guidance that day, from Jesus’ mother Mary that the children’s peace quilt project was mine to take on, because I was a woman and a mother.  That Divine guidance also meshed with other “guidance from above” over the years, calling me Mother and telling me that I had a mission on the earth- to help nurture people here to their next stage of spiritual evolution. 

Over the years, I experienced firsthand the growing power of this project.  It was a different kind of power --- never competitive, egotistical or dominating, but always positive, creative, catalyzing the possible, and facilitating connection among people.  It was healthy.  The adults who participated along with the children all sensed the energy and opened to it; reflecting it.  I realized that it had to do with innocence, positive focus, and creativity.

This simple visual then opened doors.  Thousands of children from 32 countries participated.  It was a first step toward many creative ventures.  The first section hung in the US congress, related to a movement for a Dept. of Peace.  Other sections were shown at the United Nations, foreign embassies, and at many venues.  Communities of Peace was founded, incorporating this movement along the way.  Major media paid attention --- Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, Washington Star, international and local media.  Incidents of “miracles” were experienced.  It attracted the interest and participation of major political and diplomatic people as well. 

I began considering the idea of “What is the Real Power?”  What energy and values are needed now, in our world today?  A major part of my consideration was placed on the feminine, and climate change.  The focus on our earth as “Mother Earth” and with the qualities of the feminine/mother (nurturing, sustaining, providing, sacrificing for her children) began emerging in my awareness.

I didn’t want to be coming from an aggressive, victim or a retaliator place with the male-female issue.  But I did indeed want to emphasize the qualities of the feminine, the Mother, and find a way to bring these energies forward now in a stronger way.  I felt that this movement could move us all to a next evolutionary stage --- one that is increasingly being seen as needed.  You might call this Harmony rather than hierarchal or dictatorial. 

I do hope that you’ll decide to join us in what we’re attempting to do!

With love,

Dr. Gerry Eitner

President, Communities of Peace

This project is modeled after our highly successful Children’s Cloth of Many Colors.  You can read more about it here

Directions for your section:

Overview:

Each section of the quilt is intended to represent the quilt section creator’s love and connection with Mother Nature in some way. We you illustrate this, please include your intention to take some kind of positive action related to what you are picturing. Please also include your feelings of love. This love gives your quilt piece a special creative power. Our prior quilt project was known to create “miracles” --- even by the Wall St. Journal!

• Each quilt section is 36”x36” or a yard square. The edges are finished and the section backed with plain cloth.
• Each section is to illustrate your love for Mother Nature in some way.
• As you create your section, infuse it with your love.
• Send us at communitiesofpeace@gmail.com a picture of your section, along with the story (200 words or less) of what you’ve illustrated and why.
• We’ll share it on our website www.communitiesofpeace.org, creating the larger version there.
• Invite others to join in. This spreads the energy, the creativity, the stories.
• This is intended to spark a creative, larger movement to make a significant difference – in bringing the Mother Love and the Love of Nature forward.

Donations to this project are greatly appreciated. You can do this at https://communitiesofpeace.org/donate

The Children's Cloth of Many Colors was initiated by an eight year old girl when our organization dedicated a peace pole for the Pentagon. Based on a concept initiated by "Peace Troubadour" Jimmy Twyman, the project is comprised of yard-square sections made by groups of children. With its initial focus on peace, the project has grown to include sections from thousands of children in 32 countries.  It has made a significant difference in the lives of many people, and has even been said to create "miracles" by major media sources.