I am the Way, the Truth and the Life

I'm the needle, you're the thread. You were never meant to go ahead.
Just let me go in front of you I will see you follow through

Some people always go ahead; never knowing they're just the thread
So remember what I have said I'm the needle, you're the thread.

When you start each brand new day remember I am the one that knows the way.


John 14: 6a
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.


In this text Jesus is primarily talking about going back to heaven to prepare a place in heaven. Sometimes when I read this verse it reminds me of the little poem above my Mum wrote out for me one day. It has been stapled in the front of my Sunday Bible (That is the one not falling apart and written all over) for as long as I can remember.

One of the things I enjoy more than anything is sewing which makes this very special. At the moment I am attempting to make my first patchwork quilt by machine and it struck me how life is like a patchwork. Small things fit together and as you look back you can see the pattern they have made. When I asked my children to put the little 4 x 4 squares together they were random, within the good selections and the odd pieces that didn't quite work and then some definitely didn't work where they had given up.

We worked through the combinations with guidance and we came to a selection that they thought was their's and therefore special to them. They are too young to realise that their hand was steered to something that looked more balanced and more at one with the larger picture. In their youth they could not extend 9 x 9 square patches to a small portion of a quilt.

This small exercise on Saturday in the living room reminded me that God is like the patch worker and that I am like a child who cannot see the whole picture of life, but he can. He adds the patches and makes the 9 x 9 squares like decades of time. If we let God guide our life daily with the trust my children have in me to guide their hand he will make a beautiful quilt with perfect stitches. The light shades of good times and dark shades of hard times will balance and show the purpose. Then the master will sew it all together with the pure love and grace he showed for us when he died on the cross. Using threads of pure love and his blood shed so we may make the quilt of life.