Comments on: Anticipation http://www.knittingbiblestudyonline.com/anticipation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anticipation She shops around for the best yarns, and enjoys knitting (and crochet). Prov 31:13MSG Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vivian Fink http://www.knittingbiblestudyonline.com/anticipation/comment-page-1/#comment-641 Vivian Fink Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:02:24 +0000 http://www.knittingbiblestudyonline.com/anticipation/#comment-641 I am learning to play the fiddle as a senior adult. It can be a frustrating enterprise. I practice and practice, waiting for music, and can play nothing except scales or exercises. The music just won't come. However, after 4 or 5 years, it suddenly appears! In its own time, not mine. Knitting lace is the same way. For row after row, all it looks like is a great tangle, a misshapen spiderweb. If I persist and keep knitting, the tangle suddenly becomes a beautiful pattern. God does the same for me. I restlessly seek to become who it is I think I want to be. I fight and struggle. I race and do not go faster than a snail. I even give up. I get nowhere. Then, one day, at exactly the perfect time, I become someone far better than that I had envisioned. In God's time, not mine. Finally, I am getting the picture and am standing still to wait. Oh, and doing some knitting in the meantime! I am learning to play the fiddle as a senior adult. It can be a frustrating enterprise. I practice and practice, waiting for music, and can play nothing except scales or exercises. The music just won’t come. However, after 4 or 5 years, it suddenly appears! In its own time, not mine. Knitting lace is the same way. For row after row, all it looks like is a great tangle, a misshapen spiderweb. If I persist and keep knitting, the tangle suddenly becomes a beautiful pattern.

God does the same for me. I restlessly seek to become who it is I think I want to be. I fight and struggle. I race and do not go faster than a snail. I even give up. I get nowhere. Then, one day, at exactly the perfect time, I become someone far better than that I had envisioned. In God’s time, not mine. Finally, I am getting the picture and am standing still to wait. Oh, and doing some knitting in the meantime!

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