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by: KeLee KHSummers@aol.com A good object lesson that I will use is bringing in
a lovely piece of embroidery, having the back side exposed instead of the front. I will
ask the young women what this is a picture of? I will ask them if it is beautiful, neat,
if there is too much of one color, etc. Then we will turn it around and admire it from the
correct side.
Our life is much like this embroidery. Our perspective sees
different colors, shapes, etc., but Heavenly Father's Eternal perspective shows our lives
in their full beauty.
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When I was 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. As from the underside I watched her work within the boundaries of
the little round hoop that she held in her hand, I complained to her that it sure looked
messy from where I sat. She would smile at me, look down and gently say, "My son, you
go about your playing for awhile, 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."
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