Monday, August 25, 2008

Thought for 8-25-08

Many of the world's finest Oriental rugs come from little villages in the Middle East. Each rug is hand-produced by a crew of men and boys under the direction of a master weaver. Since ordinarily they work from the underside of the rug-to-be, it frequently happens that a weaver absent-mindedly makes a mistake and introduces a color that is not accoringg to the pattern.

When this occurs, the master weaver, instead of having the work pulled out to correct the color sequence, will find some way to incorporate the mistake harmoniously into the overall patern.


It is a useful object lesson, for we all can learn to take unexpected difficulties and mistakes and weave them advantageiously into the greater pattern of our lives. There is an inherent good in most difficulties.

-- Norman Vincent Peale

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