What Stitch Am I?

Tom was preaching last week about our desire to understand what the LORD is doing with and in our lives. Tom said that we want the LORD to explain - why He lets things happen in our lives. But often we are falling for the deception, that if we understood we would therefore obey! Is our understanding really the obstacle to our obedience?

What if the LORD said to you - that you are a knot stitch? Wouldn’t we reply, “Huh?” and wouldn’t we be more then a little confused. I thought about the needlepoint pictures I have done. The knot stitch is a little stitch but needed in the completion of the needlepoint picture. Today at the library there were beautiful needle points hanging from the ceiling. I wrote this last night so within myself I chuckled. Just to see the beauty that a person could produce and thinking about what the LORD would reveal to us in eternity delighted my heart.

The needle point hanging down was so big it looked like a tapestry I wanted to stand there and enjoy its beauty but it was time to go. Next week if they are still there I will stop to enjoy them.

Here are a few of the stitches I know. Chain stitch is also known as tambour stitch and point de chainette, Backstitches, Basketweave stitch, Knot stitch, Parisian stitch, Cashmere stitching, Mosaic stitch, Jacquard stitch, Byzantine stitches, Gobelin stitch, Continental Tent stitch, Half Cross stitch, and Overcast stitch. When all these stitches are used together in a picture the results can be breath taking.

This is one of my early needlepoint pictures which I did for Grandma when I was seventeen. Many of the above stitches were used in it. See the little knot stitch flowers?

The LORD calls us a tapestry and when we see the finished work we will all gasp in awe at its beauty - then we will understand every stitch was important. For now let’s be content with who we are and live life to the fullest.

Colossians 2 :2-4
I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of GOD. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, GOD's great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we've been shown the mystery! I'm telling you this because I don't want anyone leading you off on some wild-goose chase, after other so-called mysteries, or "the Secret." (The Message)