I used to do a lot of cross stitch pictures but now that my eyesight is not so good, I only do small ones and only in good daylight. It’s amazing how a picture is created with carefully chosen colours and stitches. Also, how the front is very neat but the back can look quite messy.
Our lives can be like that. Orderly on outward appearance but messy behind the scenes. We can be struggling with worries and problems but it may look as if we are just sailing calmly through life to everyone else. I found a copy of the following poem in my box of keepsakes and it reminded me that God is in charge and He has his plans and pattern for how I live.
“The Divine Weaver”
Man’s life is laid in the loom of time
To a pattern he does not see,
While the Weaver works and the shuttles fly
Till the end of eternity.
Some shuttles are filled with silver thread,
And some with threads of gold;
While often but the darker hue
Is all that they may hold.
But the weaver watches with skilful eye
Each shuttle fly to and fro,
And sees the pattern so deftly wrought
As the loom works sure and slow.
God surely planned that pattern
Each thread-the dark and the fair-
Was chosen by his master skill
And placed in the web with care.
He only, knows the beauty
And guides the shuttles which hold
The threads so unattractive,
As well as the threads of gold.
Not till the loom is silent,
And the shuttles cease to fly
Shall God unroll the pattern
And explain the reason why
The dark threads are as needful
In the weaver’s skilful hand,
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern he had planned.
Thank you, Lord, for being with us in the dark times and in the golden ones.