Life can be so messy. There’s so much beauty, & yet…so much pain. In my own journey, it has seemed that just as I’m beginning to see or predict a pattern, dark threads come & interrupt. It’s when I think I’m in control of the design that I really get into trouble. Despite my failing, mistakes, suffering, I’m assured over & over again in Scripture that God is weaving all into something good…something beautiful. 

Corrie ten Boom is a Dutch woman who experienced trial on a scale most of us can’t imagine. As punishment for hiding Jews during the Nazi Occupation, she & her family were eventually arrested & sent to concentration camps.. Though she lost her family, she survived to tell the story in The Hiding Place, & continued to speak in proclamation of God’s faithfulness for the rest of her life. In her beautiful poem “The Tapestry”, she describes w/ great beauty the trustworthiness of God’s hand working all for good in our lives:

 

“My life is but a weaving

Between my God and me.

I cannot choose the colors

He weaveth steadily.

Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow;

And I in foolish pride

Forget He sees the upper

And I the underside.

Not ’til the loom is silent

And the shuttles cease to fly

Will God unroll the canvas

And reveal the reason why.

The dark threads are as needful

In the weaver’s skillful hand

As the threads of gold and silver

In the pattern He has planned

He knows, He loves, He cares;

Nothing this truth can dim.

He gives the very best to those

Who leave the choice to Him.”