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Life and the Weaver

  • Author: Dewar, A. W.
  • Editor: B-7413
  • Newspaper: The Umpire volume 6
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  • Date: 5 9 1917
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  • poetry

LIFE AND THE WEAVER

Life is a woven fabric; The pattern and web are wrought By the dark threads and the golden That into the loom are shot.

You can not judge God’s purpose By the thrust of a single thread, What to you may be dark, mysterious, May be gloriously bright instead.

For he holds in mind a pattern As fair as his love is strong, Which grows each day in the weaving; Not a single thread goes wrong.

No warp in his hands shall tangle, No slumber his eyelids close, We only can thwart his purpose When our stubborn wills impose

Our tangled and broken efforts To walk in his kind commands Will give life an added luster Restored by his loving hands.

So trust in the Weaver’s wisdom, In his love and unfailing care, And the fabric of life completed Some day will be wondrous fair.

—A. W. Dewar.