Holes

By Claire

All was silent in the house.

My parents and I are in the sun room, avoiding the natural scatter of family around the house. My dad is on his new laptop, my mom on the keyboard, and me, knitting -- until now. (It’s almost impossible to knit and type at the same time…) All you can hear is the birds chirping outside, the empty pounding of the keys on the piano (my mom has headphones on, so there’s no sound), the tapping of the keys on my dad’s laptop, and the occasional clanking of my knitting needles. This was a little unusual for a Sunday, especially because we were all off in our own little worlds.

Now, let me tell you, sometimes, I don’t even care what I knit. I just start with ten or fifteen stitches and go. But, with skinny needles and skinny yarn, options are limited - you can’t start big knitting projects. When I knit, sometimes I feel like I’m just a lost stitch in the knitting. Lost stitches create big, unwanted holes in your knitting that are very noticeable. When I feel like a lost stitch, I don’t feel important or helpful. But when I feel like a regular hole in the knitting (because there’s always holes), I feel important. Believe it or not, the little holes make up the finished product. In most of our perspectives, holes are just holes. But are they really? Now, I can either can feel like a lost stitch in the knitting that does nothing or I can feel like a hole that does do something -- like be helpful. 

Instead of sitting on a couch in the sun room with my parents feeling like a lost stitch in my knitting, I can go out and do something important. I can be the hole that helps make up the finished product. Now, Sunday is the typical day to go to church, right? Go. Don’t feel like a lost stitch in the knitting, laying there, sticking out like a sore thumb. Be like the hole that actually does something.