People are like......Crazy Quilts

So this week I decided to start an old project I have had laying around for about 10 years, that I periodically get obsessed with finishing. About 10 years ago, I got this wild idea, to start a crazy quilt. The directions looked simple enough, the results are beautiful; and I enjoy doing embroidery, so this seemed like a perfect project for me. Had I known it would take what seems to be forever, Im not sure if I would have started it at all. I find that I do this with alot of things. Anything that seems like it will be to much effort or take to long, I just put it off for later or go on to something easier or start and stop several times over the years. This is where I am finding myself right now with this project. Since my eyesight seems to be getting worse, all those tiny stitches give me headaches and make my hands cramp up, I figured pretty soon it could be much worse and I better get in gear and complete it.
Over the years,  I have managed to collect large amounts of material and embroidery threads and ribbons for the above said project. I have organized and re-organized. I have taken 3 weeks to finish one block of embroidery and given up countless times. I have bought book after book with the same stitches and ideas in each one.  I have put it down and started another project and not come back to this one for a whole year at a time. So here I am, with all my "stuff" ready to try and tackle it again. This is not a sudden decision, I have been working myself into this for a couple months now. With the onset of Winter, I seem to get this sudden urge to start sewing again, so I drag everything out and try to remember where I left off, before something else grabs my attention.

After gathering all my assorted books and embroidery paraphernalia, I proceeded to actually get 4 whole seams done with a minimal of effort and only one mishap. Yes, I somehow managed to embroider the quilt block to the table cloth. Silly I know, and took an extra ten minutes to get it undone and had to cut out all the stitches. Sometimes that happens, you do a bunch of work only to find out you have to tear it out and start all over again.
So here it comes, are you ready?
We are all alot like crazy quilt blocks. God pieces us together on the  foundation of Jesus his son. We are put together piece by piece, a little at a time. Sometimes things happen quickly in our walk with God, sometimes everything just stops and we look at it up on the shelf and say, One day I will get back to that. When things seem to get to hard, we walk away and take the easy path. We get distracted easily by the world or even by seemingly Godly ideas that are heavy to bear and have no real purpose other than to steal away our affection from God. Here comes the painful part, every once in a while, stitches have to ripped or cut out, and although this seems to be a terrible thing  at first, as with embroidery, when you go back and do it again, the results are always better than they were before.
Im not trying to sound hyper spiritual, Im not even close to that, but like my quilt project, I am a work in progress, and one day I will be complete, through all the starts and stops and do overs. One day I will be finished, and just like a quilt block, I will be beautiful