Pieces and Fragments

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This week I find myself envying people who have a plan. Their materials are laid out. The pattern chosen. They cut and sew and shape together their intention for a goal, a business plan, an outcome of some sort. They gather up supplies, meet the right people and create something useful. 

Me on the other hand. I seem to be going along gathering up pieces and fragments. I know what catches my attention, the pieces I want to study and understand more. Yet I don’t always know how the pieces go together or complement one another. My sewing can feel fragmented – even if I’m maintaining a color scheme! There are some beauties I’ve picked up along the way that seem to be set aside. There are fragments I’ve collected that have been discarded. Still I continue gathering. 

I sometimes envy the beautiful results of creativity. Then I have to remember that beauty comes in different forms and mediums, and can be messy. My work at this point appears to be a collage, a patch-work of pieces I’ve noticed and picked up. Some overlap. Some stand alone. But somehow (I trust) they are coming together into my own unique tapestry. My envy comes when I look at the work of others that seems so organized and direct. When I get past myself, I am grateful for those who plan their patterns – we need each other! As much as I’d like to see what I am creating, for now I have pieces that all belong and are part of my own creativity. I’ll just keep cutting and pasting and sewing and watch what takes shape.

All things have been created through God … in God all things hold together.
Colossians 1:17

In this together…