It's a wild ride. Each evening I spend 30 to 150 minutes sitting on the chair-and-a-half working on my latest project. Obsessed, I miss my bedtime and wake each morning sleep-deprived.
It's a stress reliever. After a day in a work environment with frequent reorganization, change, and near-constant deadline pressure, the rhythm of knitting, focus on pattern, and emerging results growing on the needles soothes me.
It's a spiritual reminder. The Bible tells me that God knit me together in the womb, and knew the days He would establish for my life. So each stitch joined to the previous one, each new pattern, each added row - all are metaphors representing life. And sometimes as I knit, I remember gratefully that God is knitting together a little baby I call Adele... After two babies that God holds in His arms, my sister-in-law is again pregnant.
Someday - only God knows when - He will finish the knitting project called Susan, binding me off into a beautiful garment for His eternal pleasure.
2 comments:
This is beautiful - I miss my friend from DC or DU whatever and Lugers Road. How beautifully written. I too have added back knitting to my craft cycle. Quilting, beading, knitting or whatever. Reading through the Bible this year with church!! Stay tuned!!
Diane, it's great to hear from you! Very cool that you are reading through the Bible this year - I am doing a study on my own - Kay Arthur's book, "Lord, Only You Can Change Me". It's really good!
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