About 7 years ago I had decided that I wanted to learn how to knit. I was so excited about it. The idea of learning a new thing brought me so much joy. My friend made me a beautiful knitting bag and I signed up for my first class. I was well on my way.
Then, my world slowly began to unravel as easily as the new balls of yarn in my bag. The bag went on the shelf in my closet and I entered into a darkest time of my entire life. Slowly, one by one, it seemed, everything in my life came undone.
Years past and this depression and darkness only seemed to get darker and heavier. The weight was crushing my spirit. My bag sat and there was no joy. It was a time of the dark night of the soul. More years past and slowly, through much prayer, God started to heal the broken and shattered places in my heart.
It was only this past spring ( 7 years later) I took the knitting bag down from its shelf. I was scared to try to start again. I sat staring at the bag and balls of yarn I had purchased. Tears rolled down my face. The yarn represented so many issues in my life.
Things that had been wound so tight.. I didn’t know if they would ever release and transform. But they had, and the yarn moved easily through my fingers.
A few months ago, I took another beginner’s knitting class. It brought me so much peace.
Each row I knit represents to me is another step forward in my healing and another reminder that Satan will not ever again be able to steal my joy.
I see myself finishing this first project, which is a long wide gorgeous scarf within a few weeks. I plan on wearing it all winter ( the darker seasons) as a reminder to myself that the devil comes to destroy but Jesus, He came to give us life.
Are there areas in your life that you need to weave forward? Pick yourself up again and begin.
Psalm 139:13
For it was You who created my inward parts;You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:15
My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth.
Lamentations 1:14
“The yoke of my transgressions is bound; By His hand they are knit together They have come upon my neck; He has made my strength fail The Lord has given me into the hands Of those against whom I am not able to stand.”
Acts 10:11
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth.
Ephesians 4:16
From Him, the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.
Colossians 2:2
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.
This is an updated edition of a post originally published on Holy Beautiful Life
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