什么是失落之袜
原文链接：https://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-is-lost-sock.html
日期： 2012-01-03
从小，我就特别心疼那些神情忧伤的小毛绒玩偶。当大多数孩子用零花钱买电子游戏时，我却总爱给自己添一只新毛绒玩偶，加入我的收藏。成年后，我开始收集袜子猴——目标是寻得最独特、最可怜、最忧伤的款式。我不在乎它们多丑，越丑越好！很快我发现，越独特的越贵……于是我想：我本就富有创意，何不自己动手做袜子玩偶呢？我开始搜集袜子、纽扣、毛毡、毛线——任何能用在娃娃身上的材料。把旧袜子变成鲜活生命的过程，带给我极大喜悦。每一只都独一无二，仿佛拥有各自特殊的个性。起初，这不过是打发时间的简单消遣；可我万万没想到，上帝早已为我和我的袜子定下宏伟计划……
2008年8月，我与一位朋友赴达拉斯参加一场基督教退修会。我对这次活动并无过高期待，只盼着能更深入地认识上帝。在通宵退修期间，我经历了一次属灵觉醒：基督揭开了我内心深埋多年的问题。这些问题，我曾以为祂看不见，或根本不在意；而祂却让我明白：祂不仅看见，而且极其关切。它们正阻碍我与祂的关系，妨碍我更亲近祂、坚固我的属灵生命。我曾在祂与我之间筑起一道高墙，而祂已预备好将它彻底拆毁！祂果然拆毁了……
拆毁之后，我竟能听见祂的声音！祂与我的交谈也愈发频繁。这使我得以听见祂对我人生的计划、对我创造力的托付、对我职业的引领，以及——没错——对我袜子玩偶的心意！
某个深夜，我在床上辗转反侧，感觉主正试图向我传达什么。我抓起日记本，走进另一个房间，静候祂要对我说的话。祂开始向我讲述我的袜子玩偶的故事。我仅负责记录，就像大学生聆听教授授课一般。主导者是祂，创意源于祂，我不过忠实记下祂的每一句话。待我写完，竟已整理出一本图书的大纲！这便是《失落之袜》的故事。
创作这本书的过程，于我而言是一场旅程。我更深认识了我们的创造主，以及祂对我那份深切的爱；我明白了读经成长的重要性；我体会到信靠祂话语的大能；我领悟了真正的牺牲（将在后续博客中详述）；我认识到：纵使我们一时听不见祂的声音，祂却始终垂听我们的呼求；我明白了祂的时间表远比我们的更合宜；我懂得：无论我们多么努力想成就某事，若非出于祂的旨意，便只是固执地“在泥泞中空转车轮”；我领悟到：祂为我们所定那宏大而重要的计划，未必今日成就；但今日所发生的每一件小事，都是祂整体计划中不可或缺的一环。倘若我们跳过这些“小事”，最终的“大局”便无法理解。我们只需信靠祂，并对未知怀有信心。
我对这本书的规划，或许与祂的计划不同。若我为此书沾沾自喜、心高气傲，祂自有办法“把我从马上摔下来”。我渐渐明白：祂的计划必是宏大的，必能触动他人，必是真实可信的……
什么是失落之袜
Original: https://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-is-lost-sock.html
Date: 2012-01-03
Every since I was a little girl, I had a sore spot for sad little stuffed creatures. When most kids would use thier allowance to buy a video game, I would find myself a new stuffed creature to add to my collection. As an adult, I started collecting sock monkeys. It was my goal to find the most unique, pitiful, and sad ones. I didn't care how ugly they were, the uglier the better! I found out soon that the unique ones were the expensive ones... so i thought... I am creative... why don't I just make my own sock creatures?! I started collecting socks, buttons, felt, yarn, or anything I could find to use on my dolls. I got so much pleasure in taking old socks and bringing life to them. Each one was so unique and seemed to have their own special personality. It started off as something simple, just to pass the time. But, little did I know, God had big plans for me and my socks...
In August of 2008, I went on a Christian Retreat in Dallas with a friend. I really had no big expectation for it, just was hoping to learn more about God. During the overnight retreat, I went through a spiritual awakening. Christ uncovered a lot of issues that I had buried up inside me for years. These were things I thought He could not see, or did not care about. He let me know that they were things he not only saw, but cared very deeply about. They were getting in the way of our relationship and prohibitting me to grow any closer to Him and strengthen my walk. I had built a giant wall between us that he was ready to demolish! And he did...
After the demolision, I could hear His voice! And he talked to me more and more. This allowed me to hear what he had planned for my life, my creativity, my job, and yes... my sock dolls!
Late one night I was tossing and turning in bed, feeling like the Lord was trying to tell me something. I grabbed my journal and went off into a room to see what he wanted to tell me. He began telling me a story of my sockdolls. All I did was take notes, like a college students with her Professor. He was in charge, it was his idea, and I just recorded his every word. By the time I was done writing, I had an outline for a book! It was a book for the Story of "The Lost Sock".
The creation of this book had been a journey for me. I have learned so much about our Creator and His love for me. I have learned the importance of reading His word to grow. I have learned the power of having faith in His word. I have learned true sacrifice (will be explained in a future blog). I have learned that even when we aren't hearning his voice, He is still hearing ours. I have learned that His timing makes more sense than ours. I have learned that no matter how hard we work to get something done, if it is not His will, we are just stubbornly "spinning our wheels in mud". I have learned that His big important plan for us may not happen today, but that what does happen today is a little part of His plan. If we skip the little parts of His plan, the big picture will not make sense. We just have to trust Him, and have faith in the unknown.
My plans for this book may be different than His. If I get big headed about the book, He knows how to "knock me off my horse". His plan, I have learned, is going to be grand. It is going to move others. It is going to be real...
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| Made for my youngest nephew... |
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| Made for My Little One Madelynn for her Asian theme room... |
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| Made for my Mom, created in her image... |
