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The

Embroidery

Lesson

When I was a little boy, my mother used

to embroider a great deal. I watched her

work within the boundaries of the little

round hoop that she held in her hand. I

would wonder why

she was using

some dark threads

along with the

bright ones and

why they seemed

so jumbled from

my view.

I would sit at her

knee and look up from

the floor and ask what

she was doing. She in-

formed me that she was

embroidering. I told her

that it looked like a mess

from where I was, the

underside. She would

smile at me, look down

and gently say, “My son, you go about your play-

ing 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.”

A few minutes would pass and then I would

hear Mother’s voice, “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 be-

lieve 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 and I was follow-

ing 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 Fa-

ther 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 working for Me, and

one day I will bring you to Heaven and put you on

My knee and you will see the design from My

side. Then you will understand.”

Author Unknown

Woman to Woman

Vol. 2, No. 6

“And ye are complete in him.” Colossians 2:10

Nov./Dec. 1999

Our Mission Statement: Believing that we can find

completeness in all areas of our lives only “in him, who

is the head of all principality and power” (Colossians

2:10), it is the mission of Hearth to Hearth to provide a

forum for Christian women to reach out to each other in

friendship, with joy and hope; and to encourage each

other to find our completeness in Christ as we sojourn

here on our way to the kingdom.

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