Tapestry

Back in 2014 my family was living in Baker City, Oregon. It was a needed moved and it was a hard move for our family. We had 3 children under the age of 3 and 2 older children, one in high school, the other in his last year of elementary school. It was an adjustment to say the least.

We arrived to our new home and found it had no stove or refrigerator, our bathroom had tiles curling up from the base of the tub and the downstairs where our oldest daughter was going to sleep was bare concrete and cold. None of this was as we had seen when we had done our walk through a month earlier before we moved. It was a nightmare.

All I wanted to do was turn around and drive back to Bend and hope for best. However, that was not in the cards. My parents were able to buy us the refrigerator and stove the day we moved in and we found some decent rugs for our daughter’s floor downstairs.

So we attempted to settle in but life was difficult. Our two oldest were unhappy and my husband and I were struggling too. We needed to find a church that would help but we struggled in finding that too.

Easter finally rolled around and our parents made the trip to see us. I’m not sure which church we ended up going to but the message we heard that day has stayed with me ever since.

The pastor spoke about the underside of a tapestry. We as humans can only see the one side of what God is doing in our lives. We cannot make sense of what we are seeing right now because we only see the bottom of what God is doing, but eventually we will see it all. We will someday understand why everything happened the way it did. It doesn’t make sense now but it will because we are all apart of Gods tapestry.

He will unveil it at the day of his choosing and it will be beautiful. We will finally understand all that we didn’t before. As I listened to his sermon, I finally had a few moments of peace. I didn’t understand why my family and I were facing so much chaos but I did know that God would get us through.

God did deliver us back to Bend about 4 months after that message. We were broken as a family but we have since been repaired and are the stronger for it. I’m still waiting to see the other side of the tapestry but until that day I hold the hope that it will show the most beautiful picture I’ve ever seen.