“Karen’s Notes!
Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

Selected Notes
Volume 1 Number 34 “Jeremy’s Swing Set. Easy to Assemble” November 28, 2018

It caused me to smile today. At the time, I don’t think I smiled. In fact, I am quite sure I wasn’t smiling. I have some notes that Karen wrote when she was a speaker at a ladies’ conference twenty years ago. The theme was “Handmade by Design.” She used the illustration of Jeremy’s swing set. I’ll tell you about it at the end of this little article.

“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well” (Psalm 139:14).

Karen wrote: In keeping with the theme, if you wanted to bake a cake, you would follow the recipe. If you wanted to build a house, you would follow the blueprint. If you wanted to make a dress, you would follow the pattern. The directions must be followed if you want the finished product to turn our correctly. Sometimes directions can be confusing when assembling things. Steps might be missing and sometimes parts are not included.

God is the Master Designer. Just as there is a purpose for a cake, or a house, or even a dress, God has a purpose for you. He made you! He has given you the blueprint, the Bible, for His directions for our lives.

Michael’s observation: Nearly forty years ago, Karen and I bought Jeremy a swing set. In addition to the two swings and a slide, it had the alphabet written on the legs. The design of the set allowed the alphabet to be going upward from the ground or downward from the top. You just had to be sure that the each leg was connected correctly. This “Easy to Assemble” was absolutely not true. We spent the afternoon trying to understand the directions, find the parts, and assemble what seemed to be ten trillion nuts, bolts and screws. Finally it was finished, EXCEPT. All the alphabet letters ran the same direction on three of the legs. Not on the fourth. As we stepped back and looked, there was the obvious leg with the letters running in the opposite direction. I am glad that God’s Word has clear directions. The Master Designer has created us and communicated with us. Aren’t we blessed?