The Dark Threads

I was reading in my Semenary scriptures last night and I found two quotes glued in that I love! I had completely forgotten that they were there.

As a side note I found them in Mosiah 24 if the whole 5 people that read this would like to do some scriptural studying.

My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me:
I cannot choose the colors
He worketh steadily.

Ofttimes He weaveth sorrow
And I in foolish pride,
Forget that He seeth the upper,
And I the under side.

Not till the loom in silent
and the shuttles cease to fly,
Shall God unroll the canvas
and explain the reason why.

The dark threads are as needful
in the Weavers skillful hand,
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.


"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you c an understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts and does not seem to make sense. What on earth in he up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house that the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made in to a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace."
-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Pg. 160

I hope this helps someone. It is nice to be reminded at times that no matter what is going wrong, Heavenly Father knows, and that you do not know all of what is planned for you; that the dark threads are just as important as the threads of silver and gold.