Oh Vicki!

Good one, to be sure! I need to make a folder to save this stuff in!

LOVE IN HIM,
Mari and Reeva Parry.


At 10:34 PM 7/7/2006, Vicki And The Rors said and sent:

>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


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