A little girl's mother loved to embroider. The little girl enjoyed playing at her mother's feet. She used to sit on the floor playing while the mother sat in her favorite chair near the window embroidering. Normally the little girl used to be too busy with her play to pay attention to what her mother was doing. But, one day the little girl had hurt her hand and was finding it difficult to play. So she started to observe her mother embroider.
From where she was sitting at her mother's feet, all she could see were lot of knots, jumbled threads criss-crossing, generally a mess. The little girl then asked her mother, "Why are you taking so much time and care creating something which does not look nice at all?" The mother said "Be patient my little one, you will see when I am done".
Soon enough, the mother lifted her daughter on to her lap and lo behold, all the messy little knots and jumbled threads had transformed in to a beautiful embroidered rose.
The mother then explained "Dear daughter, I was just following a pre-drawn design. From where you were, you could not see what I was creating. So what you saw was just a jumble and a mess! But, what was getting embroidered was a beautiful rose."I always try to remember this little story, when life seems a bit dull and dreary.
We cannot see the big and beautiful picture which God is creating for us. So what we should do it,we should be patient and allow God's design to unfold. And in the meanwhile, we should trust and believe that a beautiful rose is emerging from the jumble of our life!
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