The Tapestry of Life

2009
Friday, 10 July 05:00

Then I looked out over the countryside looking east to the rising sun and I saw a patchwork of fields woods and farms, and I began to ponder the beauty of what appeared to be a random pattern.

And the word of the Lord came to me:

Yes my son, there is a beautiful randomness to all your lives, because your life is shaped and coloured by each day you live. But there is order - incredible order - that I have placed in your life. All the events and pathways of men are planned by me. Sometimes you rebel against me and go down pathways that are not in my ideal plan for you, but know this: you never surprise me! I always know where you are, and I am always planning a new way out for you, so that you can return to the pathway I have planned for you.

Your life is like a huge tapestry, with every event, and word spoken, marked out on it. Every human encounter, and every opportunity, like a golden thread that pops up, apparently randomly, but each time it appears, it adds whatever is needed to the overall picture.

Sometimes the picture has order and colour, and the onlooker can begin to see where it is going and what it's about, but often it is dark as though in shadow, featureless and depressing in it's lack of colour and vitality. These are the dark times of rebellion when you have pulled away from the course I have laid out for you. But even in these times you will find the golden thread, or a sudden splash of colour where I have worked in some special thread. You may not realise it at the time, but later when you look back you see that someone, or some event, changed the course you were on, and has brought you back to my path, back into the light and the colour.

Look closely at the tapestry! You will see the thread of people, individuals who, at some time, occupy a substantial part of the picture, and then seem to disappear, only to crop up again in another part of the landscape.

No meeting in your life is chance and no thread however apparently insignificant, is without purpose. Even in the times you 'mess up', I am there, and I bring in my golden thread to guide you. These important stitches, although apparently random are not so. If you could see the reverse side of your life, you would also see incredible order on the back. You would see the golden thread that moves across the back in determined straight lines to the next point where it breaks through. There is no randomness here, only purpose, plan and order. The thread passes from one event to another in perfect order.

Each life tapestry I make is perfect, for I specialise in masterpieces. Every life I shape is special. Your life is special.

Do not allow regret to shape your life and fill it with darkness, but in times of darkness find the golden thread of rejoicing, praise and worship, for, in the praises of my people you will find me.

I, the Lord almighty, ride upon the wings of praise, and as I ride, I lift all those who love me and offer me their praises, to new heights and new horizons.

I have placed no limit on where I want to take you in your relationship with me. The only limit is you. Open your heart and life to me that I may take you to new and exciting places of colour and joy.

One day, I will let you see the finished tapestry and you will agree it is marvellous to behold. For I am in every stitch of your life, There has never been, and never will be, a time when I am not there in your life, I say it again; There has never been, and never will be, a time when I am not there in your life. That is the message I want my people, whom I love, to hear. I am with you always even to the very end of time. I always have been there, I am now, and I am to come.