Because I said so . . .

Do you remember those conversations between you and your mom or dad . . Questions and answers, answers that weren't exactly what you were looking for, so MORE questions . And probably some eye rolls and whining mixed in, and ultimately you received "The" answer you dreaded . . "Because I Said So"! and that was that! there's no good comeback or any amount of logic that can even hold a candle to "that" argument!

And yet, in knitting there are a few of those absolutes... Indisputable facts that no amount of reasoning or logic can change or re-define. For instance, WOOL. When's the last time you saw a sheep with a coat of fluff that was TOO tight. Especially during the summer months. It rains, the sheep just stand there and get soaking wet and then God sends the sun to warm things up and dry things out and yet their coats remain the same size. NOW, take that same wool that you have since purchased and spent HOURS knitting the most gorgeous sweater .. And SOMEone manages to chunk it in the washer AND then dry it for you.... It is Never going to be the same (unless you lose 50 lbs. AND drop 7 dress sizes).

And aNOTHer thing about wool - you know all those hideous balls of acrylic yarn you bought years and years ago to "learn" with? All those nasty ugly colors that were on sale (for good reason!) and that you snatched up so you could start building your stash AND knit every single one of your friends a scarf from . . And after all this time, they are still sitting alongside a few beautiful skeins of wool that you purchased simply because the colors were lush and decadent...and now that you've found the perfect pattern for the wool you start casting on, and have settled into the perfect pattern and find as you pull from the center of the skein that your yarn is coming out in sections . . Individual strands, if you were, that tell the tale . . MOTHS have found a warm and wooly new home ... And they have good taste (no pun intended) in their lodging choices... Even THEY don't want to be caught dead in that ugly acrylic!

to think ... those sweet little lambs ....  who KNEW they had such capability to shrinkwrap so succinctly! ???  and yet if you stop and consider the image of Christ as the Spotless Lamb ... it's gives you a whole new concept of Wool and it's Redemptive Qualities.  From the beginning of Sin's appearance and the resulting obvious requirements for sacrifices in order that atonement and restoration be granted, the Lamb has played an important role in Man's salvation.  Mosaic law records the necessity of a spotless male lamb to be offered as payment for sin. And throughout history God required such sacrifices - firstfruits of one's offering - to serve as payment, and as an acceptable sin offering. These rituals and laws were obeyed from the first days in the Garden with Adam and Eve until the very 1st Easter when God sent His one and ONLY Son to be THAT sacrificial Lamb .... that very first Easter when the darkness that engulfed the earth, due to Sin's stain, was obliterated by the Blood that was shed on Calvary's Cross.  The very sting of death that brought renewal and whispered promises of hope and new life for those who believe in God's promise of love everlasting and redemption that holds for eternity! 

and that is a promise i can cling to ... Because He Said So!

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.