Vickie,
This is beautiful, thanks for sharing it with us!
Virgie and Hoshi
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From: "Vicki and The Rors" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 11:34 PM
Subject: God's Embroidery


I don't forward things except once in a blue moon.  But this is relatively 
short, a friend of mine sent it, and I like it, so thought I'd share.

Vicki


> When I was just 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, the
> underside.
> I watched her work within the boundaries of the little round hoop
> that she held in her hand.
> 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."
> -- Author Unknown
>
> When things in life seem to be just a jumbled mess,
> always remember to go about your own business for Jesus
> and when you get to Heaven,
> Jesus will take you on His knee
> and you will see "THE PLAN" from His side!
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