2014 Miracle Yearbook

2 We are all stories, breathed from the Breath of Life and threaded together by Master Design. We are colors splashed on some giant tapestry, strikingly opposed and curiously bleeding together. The ins and outs of our lives were whispered in our ears long before words passed between us. Sometimes stumbling and sometimes leaping, we traversed this life until we ended up here, together. Three thousand stories, and a Creator who weaves us into the thousands that came before, producing a pattern too indescribable and yet so perfectly connected. We watch the fabric curl from the loom, and we marvel at the intricacy of it all - this grander story that somehow includes our own. Tiny, almost inconsequential threads become the connection between one swatch of fabric and another. One bright blue blends with a soft green, and what was before only two colors is now an ocean splashed across the canvas. His shining yellow and her deep purple swirl together, and we see an autumn field at twilight. The dense, wooly yarn of one stranger meets the delicate cotton filaments of another stranger, and the pattern changes again, all the more strange and beautiful. How did our stories get sewn together? Thousands of people, thousands of God-breathed journeys, gathered up at this place, around this lake, at this time.