Summary of September 22 Care Group

We met at the DeVivo's home and started the evening with a warm cherry crisp and banana bread brought all the way from Butler by Debbie and Eric. We sang about "How Deep" the love, mercy and grace of Christ are in our lives. From our discussion questions on the Paul Tripp CDs we talked about how none of our lives has gone according to our own plan. God leads us to places and circumstances where we don't want to go in order to accomplish in us what could not be done any other way. His loving purpose in our lives is our sanctification and He accomplishes just that as he "turns up the heat" in our lives and purifies us from our 'ore'-ific state into the likeness of His Son. We discussed how we must trust God's timing with our lives and not question His infinite wisdom.

Maria shared the analogy of the tapestry from Corrie Ten Boom. She said that our lives are a beautifully woven tapestry that, if only viewed from earth, resembles the underside of any embroidered piece with knots, frays, and loose strings. The design is usually unrecognizable from the underside. But when the piece is turned right-side-up we can see the beautiful design from the correct point of view, as we will see our lives from heaven. Only then will we understand all of our "knots, frays, and loose strings" that can baffle us in this earth-life.

Can you relate to some of those knots and loose strings?

And one day we will see...