Detail Oriented

My brain is on information overload, and my time with God as I crochet now is allowing for some much needed processing time. This weekend I was deep in research for a new project, and now, back at the office this morning, I was swamped in emails and calls to be returned, updates to make, registrations to change, and a thousand other details which consume head space. The upside is that I feel productive, and when the details start to overwhelm me, I comfort myself that just I'm patterned after my creator.

God is detail oriented too. One look around nature is enough to confirm that. Or take the Old Testament instructions regarding the tabernacle:

"Make a curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim worked in. Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases." (Exodus 26:31-32)

Read the full account and you might be overwhelmed too! I love that God's character values detail, how He considers it important to do the little things right and well. (It's the same reason I rip out a whole row of stitches to fix the mistake I made in the square 10 minutes ago). When I look at my day in this light, the information overload seems less like a thousand burdens and more like a thousand opportunities to glorify God.

So I finished with a clearer mind and with a blue, purple, and scarlet "tabernacle" square, patterned after God's own details.