“Help!
I need somebody
Help!
Not just anybody
Help!
You know I need someone
Help!”
The Beatles were big when I was first learning to knit.
“When I was younger so much younger than today...”, my
options were few when it came to getting the help I needed. My mother
who taught me was basically a knit-and-purl person; her patterns
varied little from the basics. And the pictures illustrating the few
how-to books I came across were difficult to decipher. There were a
lot of patterns at that time that I pushed aside because they
contained stitches I couldn't comprehend how to do.
But the world has changed in the last 40 years. Now we
have cell phones always at hand, and on them, YouTube videos
available that show us how to do stitches that are new to us. If one
video doesn't illustrate the process quite as clearly as I'd like,
there are five or six more on the same subject that can be tried.
They can be viewed multiple times on repeated days until the
procedure is firmly planted in one's mind.
A lot has changed in my spiritual life in the last 40
years, as well. I still need help in a myriad of ways on multiple
subjects; “And now my life has changed in oh so many
ways. My independence seems to vanish in the haze. But ev'ry now and
then I feel so insecure, I know that I just need you like I've never
done before.”
The “you” in that sentence for me is God. He's the
help I turn to these days. I didn't know Him like I do now when I
first picked up my knitting needles. I'm so glad He is available to
me now, especially on days when knowing how to knit a particular
stitch is the least of my problems! He is even more available
than my phone, and has personal answers on subjects that matter so
much more than anything YouTube can handle. A cancer diagnosis, a
rebellious teenager, a troublesome job situation...He has answers and
options for them all. I am careful to keep our relationship charged
and ready to go so that I am always in a position to hear His voice
when He returns my call.
“Then
you shall call, and the Lord will answer; You shall cry, and He will
say, 'Here I am.'”
(Isaiah
58:9 NKJV)
This post just really made me smile! I surely do need help with knitting. There were attempts made to teach me when I was young, but I never made it past a few short rows of knit and purl. I would rather crochet, but haven't done much with that recently either. Perhaps it's time to pull out the yarn! Love your posts!
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