"GOD'S
EMBROIDERY"
When I
was little, my Mother used to sew 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. As 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, "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 Mother's 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 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 Heaven 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
from My side."
----Author Unknown
