The last gasp in redecorating our bedroom is making the new
curtains. The others have done service for 27 years so it’s time...
We’ve had the fabric for a few weeks now, and finally today
I got down to it. I have been avoiding tackling the job because it involves
sewing two curtains each one and a half widths wide – meaning I need to be
careful about getting seams matching, nap going the right way, and so on.
Somehow I wasn’t as careful in my preparation as I intended
to be, and spent several minutes pondering which was the outside, which the
inside, of the fabric. Eventually I decided that if it is that difficult to
tell, it can’t really matter much! And anyway, we’re the only ones in the
bedroom usually, and usually we’re asleep when we’re there.
So, I’ve now done the cutting, done the machine stitching,
and am about to iron in the hems and sides for both curtain and lining. Then I
will sew the curtain hems by hand, because that’s what I always do. I know it
takes longer. I know it means my left hand, already prone to carpal tunnel,
will be wakening me up in the night with ‘pins and needles’ – as they say in
the UK – or ‘asleep’ as I would say. But I will do it anyway because that’s the
look I like.
Preparation is crucial. I know that from many years of
painting rooms. I know that from cooking. I know that from sewing curtains.
How much more should I know that in spiritual terms? Now is
the time to prep for eternity. If we’re going to be able to discern between the
‘right’ and the ‘wrong’ side of many decisions we have to make, we need to have
something to distinguish them by. It would have helped in cutting the curtains
if I had marked the ‘right’ sides with a pin. It helps me in my lifestyle
choices to know what God thinks about things.
There is always a right and a wrong side. It’s not always
easy to tell the difference. But unlike for my curtains, in life, it always
does matter.
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