Trust the Process

My favorite hobby is crocheting. I just started a new project a couple days ago, and it made me think of how much you have to trust the process in the beginning. As the maker, I know what it is supposed to become, but if anyone catches me working on it early on, it’s hard for them to tell what the end product will be.   

As I thought about this, I reflected on how the same concept mirrors life. The crochet projects I enjoy the most are wearables, which take thousands of stitches to finish. Each stitch can represent a single day of life: small, ordinary, and seemingly insignificant, but each stitch builds on itself to make something beautiful. Wherever God is taking you, the journey may be long, and the first few hundred (or even thousand) stitches/days may seem useless and like a waste, but we do not see the whole picture. Just like a project that hasn’t taken shape yet, life requires us to keep showing up every day and doing our best to work hard and please Him, trusting that the end will take care of itself. Each day is valuable; you cannot get to the polished end of a project without the first stitches or the ones in the middle, so use each day to grow.  

In my experience, I don’t think I have made one crochet project that had zero mistakes, but that doesn’t mean I throw the whole thing away. Usually, I’m the only one who knows where the mistakes are because no one else is looking that closely. The flaws blend in with the pattern. Similarly, in life, we all have days that don’t go as planned, but that’s okay, as long as we learn from them and don’t let them repeat and compound. God works even through our imperfections.  

Right now, I’m in a stage of life where the future feels uncertain, like the beginning rows of a crochet project that hasn’t yet flattened out. But I’m learning to trust that my Maker knows exactly what He’s doing. He sees the pattern when I can’t. In the end, I will be able to see where God was taking me all along even though I couldn’t see it while it was in the making.  

Bottom Line: Every day matters, even when the pattern is unclear, so trust the Maker with the process.