{"id":12898,"date":"2018-06-30T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=12898"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:53:15","slug":"joint-winner-2-god-as-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2018\/06\/30\/joint-winner-2-god-as-weaver\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Joint Winner 2 &#8211; God as Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for the 2018 Competition was <em>At the heart&#8230;<\/em> and two entries were deemed equally worthy of first prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"impact-text\"><strong>God as Weaver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My life, torn at the heart,<br \/>\nSeemed quite beyond repair\u2026<br \/>\nBut, gathering up the threads,<br \/>\nYou patiently wove them<br \/>\nInto a shining web,<br \/>\nNewly made, yet familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Those knots, slubs, broken strands,<br \/>\nUnlovely fly-specks, stains,<br \/>\nWhich seemed too damaged,<br \/>\nToo ugly for view,<br \/>\nYou gently insisted<br \/>\nShould also be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The flaws I had thought to hide,<br \/>\nYou shook out, mending tears<br \/>\nWith love and with sorrow.<br \/>\nAnd now, look how nicely<br \/>\nThey blend and come together<br \/>\nInto this fresh design.<\/p>\n<p>And the whole, the complete<br \/>\nWarp and weft of them,<br \/>\nIs so fine in your hands.<br \/>\nAs you reach for your needle,<br \/>\nEmbroider at my heart,<br \/>\nThis beautiful pattern\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Margaret Chan, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Download this winning entry as a <a href=\"http:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-JOINT-WINNER-God-as-Weaver.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf here<\/a><br \/>\nCopyright remains with the writer in each case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for the 2018 Competition was At the heart&#8230; and two entries were deemed equally worthy of first prize. God as Weaver My life, torn at the heart, Seemed quite beyond repair\u2026 But, gathering up the threads, You patiently wove them Into a shining web, Newly made, yet familiar. Those knots, slubs, broken strands, Unlovely fly-specks, stains, Which seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9112,"featured_media":12896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[576,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-julie-hulme-writing-competition","category-news-events"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 06:31:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}