On Sunday as we were all getting ready to leave after church it was pointed out to me that something was seriously wrong with Levi's sweater. Levi being my son with AHC and who is mentally handicapped.
Levi was doing his little on his tippy toes bouncy walk that he does which in and of itself is a crack up. Levi is not "little" by any means. He's big. He's thick and he's heavy. I've never had to buy husky sized pants until Levi. Picture a little child about the age of 3 mincing on their tippy toes doing a half walk half run. This is what Levi does excepting he looks like a moose trying impersonating a ballerina. It doesn't work but it makes us smile and giggle when ever he does it and he gets this mischievous grin on his face. A memory of him I hope to keep forever.
Anyway, on Sunday as he was mincing away from our group we noticed a looooong white piece of yarn hanging from the back of Levi's sweater and knew......this was not a good sign. Upon closer inspection it confirmed our fears. The sweater if left alone was unraveling and unraveling fast. The sweater would not last but if we hurried and got it off of him we might be able to salvage the sweater. We carefully took the sweater off of Levi and came home.
I thought a bit more about that sweater and Levi and couldn't help but compare. A beautiful piece of work, of art that doesn't quite have all of the loops and threads attached. Left to its own would deteriorate but in the hands of a Master could be repaired and fixed good or better than new.
One of the things that I love about the LDS mind is the way it is trained, from the beginning, in the art of parable. We think in metaphors, but more deeply than that - we see metaphors in everything. There was a group of people in the British past (now, I'm on shaky ground - losing all that lovely graduate education to the years) called "Pantheists". Shoot. Now I'm going to have to look them up. Anyway, part of that movement was a certain understanding that the very earth itself had been created as - or simply was, because of its origins - another book of scripture. So you look - you think - you consider - and you learn.
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Love that gappy, happy face on Levi! Love Kristen's thoughts on parables...and the "parable" itself! Ah, I love to read your blog almost every day and be uplifted!
ReplyDeleteJust curious, was that a sweater that you knitted?
LOL! Gracious sakes Tamra NO. I'm still trying to learn to knit a stupid scarf! I've graduated from a hot pad to a scarf. Now aincha proud?
ReplyDeleteAren't we all that way? It's pretty easy to unravel really, we need our master's hands to re-weave our straggly threads and make us whole again. :)
ReplyDeleteRachel, I totally love you! You have such an amazing way of thinking...
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