More sewing tales today.
I have put the cushion cover on hold until I have figured quite what I am doing with it, but I have spent the evening instead making a beautiful roll-up craft case for knitting needles, pens/pencils, sewing equipment etc.
Again, I wasn't following a pattern, so I just sort of made it up as I went along.
However, I am so proud of the finished product and so pleased. It looks really good, as if I have bought it, rather than sewing it myself.
There are wonky stitches and a few bits which frayed and so I had to
sew over them a few times. There are a
few bits where I could perhaps have used a different colour thread so the
stitching isn’t so obvious. But in the
main, I am really proud of my creation.
It is not perfect, but I made it and I’m delighted with it.
I have been reflecting on the delight (and, if I’m honest, amazement as
I never really believed I could learn to use a sewing machine and actually make
things halfway decent), that I feel and thinking about it illustrates God’s
delight in us – His creations.
We are not perfect in and of ourselves – we are ‘frayed round the edges’
– but in His sight and through His purifying love, we become perfect.
I love that no one else has sewn what I’ve made either: it is completely
unique. One of a kind.
I love this verse in Ephesians,
“For we are God’s masterpiece.”
[Ephesians 2:10 NLT]
Not, we are God’s first draft, or God’s quick sketch, or God’s doodle. We are His carefully constructed, well-thought-out, planned, perfected, delightful hand-made masterpieces.
I am so proud of my sewing, I can’t stop looking at it and marvelling
and smiling and feeling so proud that I
made it.
And that’s just how God feels every time He looks at us.
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