The day the two of them imagined making something, they up and took a lamb’s sacrifice and headed back to the garden.
Back to the orchard, back to the tree.
Back with one hank of wool yarn and the dye and their dreams, and a sheet of clear directions, highlighted and circled in yellow.
The instructions did state that the yarn needed to be real animal fibers or the colors wouldn’t stick — that fibers of cotton, linen, of any once green and leafing plant, would fail, make for a miserable Cain-kind of state.
That only fibers made of protein, of a life laid down, sheared and offered, would let colors into its pure white threads.
They did underline that part.
After the dyeing, after the bleeding of the sky and earth and sea and flame and creation, right into the strands of lamb, they hung the skein off a branch, off an apple hanging down, untouched…
And they spun around in giddy grace, spun that yarn into a ball – and long into the evening, the two of them knotted and knitted and giggled at new possibilities made under a tree, off what hung down.
And when they wound that knitted yarn into a flower, they tucked those vibrant petals into their spilling gold strands,
a stem of redemption plucked from a dyeing in the garden,
and twirled about in their coats of many colors,
spinning in the realest new…
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And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”::
Revelation 21:5
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.2 Corinthians 5:17
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