Like anyone else, there are times when I get tired and wonder how I will ever find the solutions to things that are important, to accomplish what needs to be done with a deadline looming, and I pray that I am able to do it all before the man-made clock runs out on those certain things; but then I think of all the times when I was led to believe that the deadline had an abyss waiting to consume me, as people around me went into panic mode, and I was reminded of how important it is, as if I didn't already know ...tick tick tick TICK TICK TICK ....
Sometimes I haven't been able to do all that I was told was necessary, in the time-frame allotted, but somehow I was given a reprieve, and somehow I made it through and came out the other side...
Sometimes things don't work out as fast or as well as I've prayed they would, bringing forth difficulties that I feel will break me, but then... suddenly, I look ... and that part is finished...
I look back and see the faces of those I encountered along the way... and the shimmering threads they provided that were spun with the solutions and gave that portion of the tapestry a special radiance
Although we may not realize it, most people care more than we are led to believe ... and many times solutions come about not in straight, clear lines on pages that we can flip to see what is ahead... but in unforeseen ways ...
Life isn't an essay written on lined notebook paper, or a book with each chapter following another from a beginning to a conclusion. It's a tapestry woven one thread at a time, that we create by going through the ins and outs. It's composed of threads of many colors and textures, with the threads provided by the people in our lives who, many times, aren't even even aware of it. They become a part of the tapestry we weave that is our own individual life, in the great tapestry of life itself. We do the weaving, but it is the love from the people we meet that provide the threads ... and we are meeting new people who provide new threads, all the time.
I may not have the thread I need for the portion of the tapestry I am weaving at this hour, but as I am looking for it, someone I know, or someone new, will provide it and I will continue with my weaving ...
There will come a time when a thread I am looking for isn't there...
At that time, my tapestry will require only one more thread to being it together... a golden cord ... the one through which my life force has run here on earth ... It will be plucked and used to bind the final edge of my tapestry as it is added to The Great Tapestry in its Grand Design, according to the pattern which was already laid for it
And once again, there will be no abyss that others have warned me about. I will find myself in the presence of others who know me and will guide me. It will hang like stars in the night sky, and as I behold the Glory of all Creation, I will look upon it and smile, because everyone and everything I ever loved, are with me, woven into it to last for all Eternity ...
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