An amazing tapestry

For the last ten days, I've been working with kids and adult staff to help produce a show with Homeschool Performing Arts, a theatre production company for homeschooled students and their families.  I'm finishing up my third year with the organization, my sixth show.  Over the last two weeks, I sat through multiple rehearsals, including dress rehearsals, and then two performances.  But it never gets old, it never stops affecting me.  I was overwhelmed the other night as I watched a group of these young men and women meet the challenge of a complex choreography number, tackled with great enthusiasm and energy.  I was moved with great thankfulness for the privilege of being a part of HPA.  And it occurred to me, once again, that it was for this moment in history that I was born.  The gifts, talents, failures, and frailties I find in myself are all brought together to do the work that is now before me.  Those days, as a little girl, that I pretended to play school with my stuffed animals in my bedroom; the dreams that I had in high school of spending my life doing theatre; the hopes I'd had all my life of being married and having a beautiful family; they've all come together, woven beautifully together, to create what is my life today.  All those strands have come together with precision and purpose...no mistakes, no wrong colors...all created in amazing fashion by an Amazing Master Craftsman. Each new day will bring new challenges and new victories which will better equip me for the next day. And, as a tapestry cannot boast in itself, nor the loom take pride in it's accomplishments, I magnify the One who alone had the pattern and the ability to make the tapestry something useful and reflective of His magnificent glory!