Knitting...

I've been thinking lately about what "you knit me together in my mother's womb" means.  The phrase has been stuck in my mind (or maybe it's in my heart).  It brings about a sense of awe and I have to admit it brings about some remorse still to this day.  I'll start with the awe.

I've done a little knitting.  Very little.  As you get comfortable it can become a mindless practice - doing the same stitch over and over.  Then just when you think you've got it down, you may drop a stitch or some such thing and the next thing you know you're unravelling in an effort to correct the mistake.  At least that's how I knit.  :o)   The lesson here is you have to pay attention to what you're creating.  That's been my experience with the very simple knitting I do to make a very simple scarf.

You can create amazingly beautiful things if you know what you're doing and if you step out of the box and into the world of many stitches.  There are 45,400,000 images for knitting on google!  You wouldn't believe what people have knitted.  There are 185 different stitches listed in the Library of Knitting Stitches found here.  That's amazing.  Those are just the ones humans have figured out.  Imagine what God can do in a mother's womb.

Now think about the possibility of Him creating you - knitting you together - into a beautiful masterpiece where He has paid attention to every stitch - deciding exactly what to do next to make you the only you.  Unique.  Original.  Perfectly you.  Like no other.  You are the only you there is in the world.  Isn't that incredible?  He only made one of you.  You are not mass produced.  You are His original, unique, most amazing creation.  Kind of makes you look at pregnant women a little differently, doesn't it?  Like I said...Awe inducing.

Funny thing.  The remorse is gone.  I can't even go there right now.  I'm overwhelmed with the love that He pours out over each one of us.  And the forgiveness.  He is so sweet.  He loves us so much.  Overwhelming.