Many of the world’s finest Oriental rugs come from little villages
in the Middle East, China, or India. These rugs are hand-produced by crews of
men and boys under the direction of a master weaver. They work from the underside
of the rug-to-be. It frequently happens that a weaver absentmindedly makes a
mistake and introduces a color that is not according to the pattern.
When this occurs, the master weaver, instead of having the
work pulled out in order to correct the color sequence, will find some way to incorporate
the mistake harmoniously into the overall pattern. In weaving our lives, we can
learn to take unexpected difficulties and mistakes and weave them
advantageously into the greater overall patterns of our lives. There is an inherent
good in most difficulties.
