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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: In and Out (04/30/09)
Weave the thread in and out. Push the needle through the cloth and weave it in and back out. Much like the threads of our lives, they weave in and out. Our lives are filled with moments of the thread going in, when God is pouring himself into us. Other times the thread is going out like when we pour out to others. Weaving, always mending, that’s just what God does.

I’m reminded of the mending done in my own life, the mending of my own heart as he wove the threads in and out of my brokenness. A million shattered pieces, hidden and covered by years of scar tissue. Then someone pointed me to the weaver, the recover of hearts. God found the pieces and gently, delicately sewed them back together. Pieces found by him when I was eighteen when I first surrendered. Then more pieces at twenty-one as I resisted and run. Thirty four, all alone but there He is again finding still more. Mending and mending, more pieces to restore. Now, here I am at forty-seven and the mending goes on. Seems He won’t stop until I’m completely restored and each piece is found.

Somehow it seems now as if no mending was done. His restoration is so complete that it’s as if no brokenness was found. I glance in the mirror and the reflection’s the same, but some how I’m different. There’s a peace where sorrow used to be and joy where once pain was. My insides feel new and my soul has been restored.

“How has this happened?” I ask of Him. This is what He spoke to me “Remember all those times you cried out to me? Each cry was a piece of my thread. Each tear I used as a piece of thread to mend your heart. Not one drop was cried in vain”

“In and out” He then said to me “I poured my mending into you; now it’s up to you to pour it back out.”

So today, if your heart is broken and filled with pain, I recommend the weaver, the recover of hearts. Mending, always mending, it is His thing.
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Jan Ackerson
05/08/09
I really like the idea of threads weaving in and out as a metaphor for healing--this was very clever.

You did mix your metaphors in a few places--by using "shattered", (which implies a hard material that couldn't be mended with thread), and then when you have the paragraph where tears become threads to do the mending.

I have known this mending in my own life, and I loved reading this.
Janice Fitzpatrick
05/10/09
I really like this. Your usage of weaving as God weaves our broken lives into something beautiful is well done! Thank you for writing this piece, beautiful!