Sunday,Apr 11 2004, 04:58:19 AMGod's Embriodery of your Life When I was a...

God's Embriodery of your Life

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. I told her that it
looked like a mess from where I was. 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, "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 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 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 would then 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 then 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."

When life seems all messed up, think of His plans for you.

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