Tapestry of Life

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little."
Isaiah 28:10

I remember my first experience with a bike. I had to get on my cousins bike and let her pump me on the handlebars. I had to learn to trust hers and my own sense of balance at the same time. It took more than one fall, a few scrapes and a bruise or two before we could master two on a bike. Later when I learned how to ride for myself, I began to build on those first principles adding to the new ones of steering, breaking, standing, wheelies, no hands and pumping others. Now, I’m learning to ride a motorcycle; and like the child who had learned to trust others as well as herself; using the same principles as riding a bicycle, I am again adding to those first lessons and implementing them in this new challenge.

Those lessons didn't discontinue and start over again with each new level of difficulty; they were built upon one at a time like the scripture in Isaiah. Life lessons woven into a beautiful tapestry of time, experiences, emotions and events. A piece of work so intricate in detail that the life it represents is not aware of until it is forced to look back through the windows of time. The patterns which appear random while unfinished begin to reveal a superb, matchless work of art only made possible at the hands of a unique and involved Artist. A day at a time, a moment stitched to a moment, bound by a week, a month, a year. The wool of ideas, ideals and concepts, ribbons of destiny, strings of events joined by the needles of an ultimate Weaver all coming together to form a piece of art so detailed and exquisitely designed as to give the Maker of it great pleasure at His own creativity.

Turn around. Look back over the years of your life and see the great work that has been done in you precept upon precept, line upon line, her a little, there a little. Appreciate every layered lesson learned through pain, joy, repitition, patience and love. You are a unique creation designed by the Master Creator. There is no other like you. There is no other like Him.