Everyman’s Hut

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 29, 15 November 1940, Page 8

Everyman’s Hut

“Not until each loom is silent, And the shuttles cease to fly, Will God unroll the pattern And explain the reason why , The dark threads arenas needful In the weaver’s skilful hand, As the threads of gold and silver For the pattern which He planned.” A seemingly hopeless tangle of threads, a meaningless conglomeration of colours, an ugly lump of clay—so it is to the eye of the uninitiated, but to the weaver at the loom an ordered intricate weaving of the gorgeous tapestry to the pattern he is copying, to the artist at the easel the patient building up of a masterpiece of composition which in his mind he sees already complete, to the potter at the wheel the material from which will be shaped the delicate work of art which his brain has conceived. Every swift thrust of the shuttle, every sure stroke of the brush, every deft touch of the fingers on the whirling clay is but part of an ordered plan for the creation of that which, in its finished beauty, will bring joy to its creator and to all who look upon it. And so the Great Weaver is weaving the life of each of us according to the individual pattern which He has planned. The joys and sorrows, happiness and pain, the bright sunshine and the dark clouds, which at the time make life seem such a hopeless contradiction, will one day be seen in their true position and relationship to each other and to the completed design. Life is not just an aimless buffeting by fate for a more or less uncertain period of years until “comes the blind fury with abhorred shears and slits the thin spun life.” God has planned for each of us, and all that is needed is that we should seek to know His will concerning us and shape our lives

accordingly. We may make a bad job of it, but “There is divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them as we will.” To all who put their trust in His Son, the sure word is “your life is hid with Christ in God.” Our desire is that more and more of the boys who pass through the Hut may learn to commit their lives to His keeping before they pass overseas to what lies ahead.