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The article this month is provided by Denise Twining, Covenant Players Supervisor in the Republic of South Africa. She writes on the following verse from Ephesians.
For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them. (Ephesians 2:10, New English Translation)
“My sister, a textile artist, has recently begun working with Cricula cocoons.
“As she explains it: ‘Cricula silk caterpillars ...spin cocoons, out of silk, which is a single filament that they extrude from their body. The moth emerges later, the cocoon falls away.... Cricula silk yarn is extracted from the cocoons, from the inside.
‘The stiffer exterior cocoon is what I'm using... the cast-off outer cocoon is a beautiful natural golden color, that I use as a piece of ‘wild gold silk lace’, ‘wild’, to me, because the caterpillar wove it by wrapping himself through the movement of his body. Each piece of cocoon lace has its own color and density and pattern.”
“The cocoons have become a standard part of her recent work. My niece, a jewelry maker, saw some of these works and decided to incorporate the cocoons into some of her designs. The results are equally stunning. So, the cast-off stuff of the worm’s metamorphosis becomes the basis for our silk, and the part that can’t be used for silk yarn gets incorporated into works of art.
“I like to think about that. We are God’s work of art, his poem – He can turn the sufferings and disappointments of our lives, our faltering, stumbling efforts and even the cast-off shrouds of our former lives into works of art for His Kingdom. He turns the words of our most desperate, cried-out prayers into poetry to be sung to His glory.”
As the Lord continues to transform your life, what good works has He prepared for you to do? Join Covenant Players and find out! The Lord has created you to be a part of His work!
