In Knitting God taught Me a Lesson

           I love knitting.  I especially enjoy learning new techniques, but sometimes  the  learning curve is high.  One of the things I enjoy knitting  most is socks.  I've only  ever made them  on 5 needles, but in May, my  friend gave me  the needles and  instructions for knitting socks on a circular needle from the toe  up.  I began  that evening  trying to work on them, but I just couldn't get it.  I felt so  frustrated, but since my friend gave me this gift, I had to do it.  It's taken since May, but I had finally gotten  hold of how to do it, when last night I discovered I had dropped  stitch.  Ugh... I almost wanted to cry and rip the whole sock out and just go back to my  comfortable way of  knitting socks.  Almost....but not quite.

My husband reminded me it's easier to quit than to press  forward.   He referred to a spiritual matter we had  discussed earlier, but said right at that moment of my  frustration I got to thinking about life in general.  So often  we have struggles, trials, and burdens in this life, and we think, it isn't fair, does God really love me?  Pastor asked an interesting question  on Sunday, "When  life's going  well, do we ever ask God,  'do you love me'?"  So, why do we ask it in trials?  Of course He  loves us.  It's  in the  trials of life that we see how He carries us through.  It's easy to give up, not read  our Bibles, not pray,  not go to church, but that's  just what the  devil  wants us to do.  I had to  ask myself, am I a quitter?  I can be. I usually want what's easy, but I guess most of us do.  If  we quit on the little things, like knitting  a sock, will we quit on the bigger things of life, like health or money worries?

God  loves us and cares about every detail of our lives, even knitting a pair of  socks.  Saying a quick prayer  asking for wisdom, I turn to the sock and stare at it.  Finally I got an idea of how I could pick up the one dropped stitch.  It took a while, but I got it done.