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| Tangled Floss |
Remember
this? I have been working on organizing
my floss and came across several skeins that had become quite tangled. As I sat
working out the knots and tangles I was reminded of another time I spent
untangling. I was sitting in my Dad’s living room with a large skein of yarn
that had become impossibly tangled. I needed it for a project I was working on
and didn’t have money to buy a new skein. So I worked and worked at it all the
while my dad was sitting nearby reading the newspaper and watching me. Finally
after several hours I was done and now had a nice round ball of yarn ready to
be used.
My Dad just
looked at me and shook his head “You must have a lot of patience.” he said “If
it was me I would have thrown the whole lot away after five minutes and bought
some new yarn.” Well that wasn’t an option for me at that time, but I am a
pretty patient person in most areas of my life. However if circumstances had
been different I may well have done just that.
As I was
thinking about that I thought how our lives sometimes become so tangled through
bad decisions we make or even how we react to circumstances beyond our control.
Some of us became so messed up and tangled that even our closest friends and
family were ready to throw us away as a lost cause, beyond hope, of no value.
But thanks
be to God He sees the tangled mess and says I can work this out if you’ll just
let Me. And with His help slowly the tangles come out. I was so deep in sin
about to give up and end it all when He heard my cry and saved my life. He’s
still working on my tangles and knots.
Even when
He runs into a big knot His love and grace keeps working at it until the knot
is loosened and the tangle is freed. Some of us are so tangled it may take our
lifetime to get it all straightened out, but as long as we rest in His hands we
have the assurance that He will continue until we are perfect in Him.
Happy to be
His!
Rose
