GOD'S 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. 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 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."