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TITLE: Stitches in Time | Previous Challenge Entry
By LINDA GERMAIN
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In all the world there’s just one girl and she, so sweet and adoring, swears he’s the ideal one and so they gaze at stars and dream of the exquisite tapestry they’ll create with threads of purest love and stitched to perfection like no other in all eternity.
Cleaving…
At the altar her man stands at attention like a toy soldier in splendid regalia but looks as if he might well faint from the terror of the moment until he sees her floating on her father’s arm swathed in some frothy white bridal mystery; an angel of his dreams.
Weaving…
Together they work to embroider images from here and there, mostly flimsy nonsense, of what they suppose builds a marriage, each with different designs in mind, each with different colored yarns, and cut from useless patterns too weak in the seams and frail in the knots.
Deceiving…
God’s plan for a firmly double-stitched vow with the unfailing strength of His sturdy twine laced around and through (3-cord promise) trumps the fairy-tale of a barely basted customary ritual that will ravel at the edges and surely make hearts come undone in a sad and painful way.
Leaving…
Lonely strangers at the end, who ran side-by-side yet not together, are wrapped in confusion and distress and wounded to the core as they ache from the awful broken mess because they finally see that a worldly vision woven with gossamer thread never holds when challenged by life’s enemy.
Grieving…
A repenting season of honest reflection and forgiveness may gently soothe their injured hearts where scars will either build a wall or make them stronger when they reach for new patterns to redirect their lives as God chooses and tells each how, perhaps together or maybe not.
Achieving…
Starry-eyed Brides and Grooms might consider that the ties that bind are not ephemeral ribbons flitting at will in any wind and merely hoping a complicated tapestry evolves, but rather they are sturdy scraps of daily Christian love constructing a forever patchwork quilt—one faithful stitch at a time.
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1 Corinthians 13:13
Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
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