Those silly socks

Ok... so today's blog might not be spiritually based.  Actually, they all end up relating to something in my spiritual life.  Stick with me.

The big joke with my knitting friends is that I am ANTI-sock.  I know how to knit socks.  I love knitting with sock yarn.  Hand knitted socks are ABSOLUTELY yummy feeling.  I don't knit socks.

I know how to knit socks with dpns.  I know how to knit socks in magic loop.  I think I understand toe up socks but have never tried a pattern.  (non-knitting friends -- just smile and nod at Mariesa's weirdness).

Here I sit needing to cast on for a new project.  I have tons of options.  What do I want to knit?  Socks.
I have this really cool rainbow striped yarn that I got about a month ago.  I can imagine NOTHING but socks out of this yarn.  They are begging to be socks.  (Yes, my husband does worry about me talking to my yarn).

And here comes the spiritual part (you knew it was coming.)  Life is funny.  We like our comfort.  We like to do what we know.

Socks for me are a commitment.  You commit to a sock pattern and go clear through the sock pattern only to have to do the pattern over again for sock 2.  Socks, for me, are a break out of my free flowing knitting world into a structured product.  If I don't follow the pattern, the formula it won't work.  They won't fit.

For awhile now, I have been working on my time with God.  I have been focusing on it in many different ways.  The great thing about God time is that unlike making socks -- I can't mess God time up unless I don't do it.  It is a definite commitment like socks and the end product is wonderful.

So... I guess the anti- sock knitter will really make a pair of socks.

God help me now!!!