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Read Psalm 139:13-18.
Knitting patterns can be very simple or very intricate. For instance, we’ve all seen those Norwegian sweaters with those incredibly detailed patterns. Yes, people actually knit those by hand! But can you imagine knitting an actual Norwegian? (ha, ha!)
But God can knit a Norwegian, or anybody else, for that matter. God knits us together in our mother’s wombs. People have babies, but God is the one who knits them together. A pregnant mother doesn’t say to herself, “Okay, today I’m going to make a liver.” No, the baby just grows. God is doing the knitting. We know quite a bit about the gestation process; a lot more than people knew when the psalmist wrote down this lovely text. Has science added or subtracted to the mystery of life? Many of us – even many scientists – believe that the deeper we go into the mysteries of nature, the more we discover just how awesome God’s mighty work of creation is.
This message is excerpted from “Stiches and Scripture” adapted by Audrey Novak Riley, a 2011 resource of the Women of the ELCA.