“Gods Embroidery”
When I was a little boy,
my mother used to embroider a great deal. I
would
sit at her knee and look
up from the floor and ask what she was doing. She
informed me that she was
embroidering. From the underside I watched
her
work within the
boundaries of the little round hoop that she held in her hand, I
complained to her that it
sure looked messy from where I sat. She would
smile at me, look down
and gently say, "My son, you go about your playing
for a while, and when I
am finished with my embroidering, I will put you on
my knee and let you see
it from my side."
I would wonder why she
was using some dark threads along with the bright
ones and why they seemed
so jumbled from my view. A few minutes would
pass and then I would
hear Mothers voice say, "Son, come and sit on my
knee." This I did only to be surprised and thrilled to
see a beautiful
flower or
a sunset. I could not believe it, because from underneath it
looked so
messy.
Then Mother would say to
me, "My son, from underneath it did look messy
and jumbled, but you did
not realize that there was a pre-drawn plan on the
top.
It was a design. I was only following it. Now look at it from my side and
you will see what I was
doing."
Many times through the
years I have looked up to my Heavenly Father and
said, "Father, what
are You doing?" He has answered, "I
am embroidering
your life." I say, "But it looks like a mess to me. It seems so jumbled.
The threads seem so dark. Why can’t they all be bright?" The Father seems
to tell me, "My
child, you go about your business of doing My business, and
one day I will bring you to Heaven and put you on My knee and you will see the plan form My side."
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