The Master Carpet Weaver — inspired by Corrie ten Boom’s poem “Life is but a Weaving”
There was a a master carpet weaver so gifted that people would come from all over the world to buy his hand stitched, stunningly beautiful carpets.
For about a year his six-year-old granddaughter, who often pestered him to let her weave a carpet with him finally proclaimed, “I know how to do this!” So on her seventh birthday, he presented her a gift of two of his favorite needles. He then patiently taught her some basic stitching techniques. Off she went, weaving with the confidence of a seven-year-old without executing a single correct stitch! Not one. But the grandfather, being wise and skilled, adoring his granddaughter beyond measure, simply incorporated all of her mistakes as she stitched away into the carpet. This of course was his master plan all along. When they finally finished the project another masterpiece was created!
That's the world that we really live in. That's reality. We're kids. We're making mistakes right, left, and center — and Father, Son and Spirit are always finding a way, from the inside out, to redeem those mistakes — incorporating them into an ever greater awareness of God’s love for us — transforming us into living sacraments of their harmony, of their love, of their joy, of their laughter, of their peace.
~Adaptation from “Life is but a Weaving” (The Tapestry Poem) by Corrie ten Boom
