The Patchwork of Our Lives

Last week my daughter and I, along with other “helpers” all brought our sewing machines into my grandson’s school in order to sew dozens of quilts for his class.  Each child had been working for days on their fabric squares, painting pictures of their families, their favorite toys, their hobbies, and now these squares had to be sown into individual quilts. Oh, how proud the children were when their quilt was finally stitched and ready for viewing!  And their eager faces told you they could hardly wait to bring them home to show their parents.

After looking at all the quilts, I was amazed how different each was, and how the squares exposed so much about the young lives they represented so like the patchwork of our own lives.

We are all working on our quilts, and our squares reveal who we are and what is important to us by the pictures we are painting.  They also reveal disappointments, heartbreak, and failures, too. But at the end we will be left with an indelible tapestry which will be examined by our Heavenly Father.  What will it say about us? Will we be excited to show Him?

Something to think about.

Until next week,

Sylvia