When someone hand sews something with a fairly lengthy piece of thread, this rookie mistake comes up every so often. In some random, inexplicable way, the thread you were working with just suddenly knots itself and leaves a little loop there making you unable to use the that length of thread. Pretty much, that little unruly knot tells you that you have to start up the needle all over again and start where you left off. If you ever have put a thread into an eye of a needle, you probably know how difficult that is.
I like to think of life something similar to this little charade. While you're just pushing in the needle and pushing it out, leaving a trail of speckled color in the fabric, life just goes on; a usual sequence of events-- a typical everyday. However, once in a while, just out of the blue, there comes along one of these guys who just completely throws off your progress, skewing you from what you aimed on doing. Oh crap. What do I do? Should I just thread the fabric like this or should I redo the stitching from where this guy ruined it? Inevitably, it ends up where the thread is cut-- either with scissors or from it snapping in an attempt to sew through it.
Contemplating no other alternative, no matter how hard you try, you just kind of have to start where you left off, sewing away. Once you run out of yarn, you replace it-- sometime later, the same little knot will come up. From the past experiences before, you think you know how to deal with the problems. Always, though, it brings a troubling feeling that you have to start over-- the fact that the progress you're making came to a screeching halt. It'll occur frequently. It'll seldom occur. More likely than not, it is the Will of God determining what happens. He knows the challenges you can handle, and it'll never be more than you can bear; it's up to you to use it to your own good and it's up to you to handle it-- God gave us agency for a reason.
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