THE TAPESTRY

THE TAPESTRY

The Tapestry of our life
Is fashioned
Stitch after stitch
Into a finished work,
By the way we weave the threads
Unchosen-
Given us,
To be used this way or thus,
Through circumstance or Divine
Encounters meant to refine
The product of our making-
The Tapestry,
That consumes our waking.

Not until eternity
Will we see
How God took strands
Of heartache and of joy,
Intertwined them for our use
In ways we did not understand,
Until at last,
Designed
By His unseen direction,
The tangled threads all mended,
And all the colors blended,
We present to him complete-
Our Tapestry,
An offering at His feet.
© G. Blank
For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath ordained
that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10