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The complexity of our lives is so very clear as our church has been studying the life of Jacob, Leah and Rachael. As a community we find ourselves in a complex web of relationships, especially at this time of year when everything is getting back into high gear: vacations are mostly over for all who were able to take some time off, people of all ages are going back to school and the rhythm of life just generally picks up!
The complexity of our lives is made clear in a poem that was read recently in worship entitled: A Weaving.
On a loom are we created
And have our breadth of days
Our web fashioned by unseen weaver’s hands
Deftly spun we become the woof
Now the warp
Slowly turned into tapestry.
The filaments of our lives entwine
Each strand touching others
Soft wool, hard jute, supple linen
A spectrum of color and feel
Amid the rough fiber fined gold thread
Blended with those of common mettle.
Each sees their texture but dimly
For we busy ourselves in being the yarn
Yet, in heaven’s time is revealed an artful plan
A fabric woven from laughing hearts
From joyful love’s embrace
And, too, of sorrow’s tears
On the humble trail we trod.
Shall we now lift our hearts
In sweet appreciation
In hopes for lives well lived,
In hopes for lives well spent;
Fashioned from recovered cloth
Into a weaving made divine
- Ron Eklof , 2008
The beauty of this poem, exemplifies for me the gift of the complex tapestry of our lives all coming together. We need each other and surely the golden thread would be God’s love holding us all together. Hope you might find beauty, complex as it might be, in the goodness of your life with others.
