While doing a study called The Frazzled Female, I began to think about what it means to be "frazzled" and is it really a bad thing. I concluded that it is actually pretty common among Christians and non-Christians to become frazzled. We live in a busy, stressful, fast world. Does that mean its right, no. But I can handle frazzled, God can remedy that! We need to sit back, let God get our priorities straight, and seek to glorify Him in our every action, thought, and word. I do, however, begin to grow concerned if we begin to come unraveled. If we get to a point where we are literally falling apart, and what was once holding us together no longer is. Go with me for a moment to the sewing world and lets talk fabrics:
1. Burlap - very loosely woven material, see-thru, popular in home decor right now
2. Jersey - knit tightly, stretchy, gives and takes, may loose shape, used for tshirts
3. Broadcloth - knit together tightly, comes in variety of patterns, not the finest of material
When I think about the three fabrics above I would say that burlap is the most popular right now, many people use jersey because we often times wear t-shirts, and broadcloth would bring up the rear in popularity. Now I want to switch gears and think about Christianity for a moment. As a Christian which fabric do you most resemble? Are you like the burlap, popular with your friends, people like you, but when tugged on your threads fall apart and you crumble to pieces? Or perhaps you are more like jersey still pretty popular, when tugged on you give and take, you stretch to conform, and never regain your original shape. Or would you consider yourself more like broadcloth, not the finest of quality on the outside from peoples eyes, but very strong, solid, and durable, and when tugged on you dont budge, you stand firm. When God is the thread that we choose to knit our lives together we will have the strongest "material" there is. There is nothing else that can knit our lives together to prevent us from unraveling other than Christ. Does that mean we are the most popular or that we look like the rest of the world? No, we will look different and the world will most often spit us out because the Christ in us is not of this world.
So when we do begin to feel "frazzled" I think its best to ask yourself...am I just frazzled or am I coming unraveled?
