Tapestry

The following reminder is from L. B. Cowman's devotional, Streams in the Desert--seeing through all things (even the things we don't like) to God alone:

No chance hath brought this ill to me;
'Tis God's own hand, so let it be,
He seeth what I cannot see.

There is a need-be for each pain,
And He one day will make it plain
That earthly loss is heavenly gain.

Like as a piece of tapestry
Viewed from the back appears to be
Naught but threads tangled hopelessly;
But in the front a picture fair
Rewards the worker for his care,
Proving his skill and patience rare.

Thou art the Workman, I the frame.
Lord, for the glory of Thy Name,
Perfect Thine image on the same.

--Selected