I read this yesterday, Job 7:6a
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle...."
Job had obviously watched a weaver to know this and apply it so aptly.
Here is a video that shows a weaver's dance........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg2ZqO1X-Qs
she starts out slowly and then gets it going, just like our days.
(Video by Laura Fry on YouTube)
Monday, December 5, 2011
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Oh my! Do oyu weave like that?
ReplyDeleteI have had a small hand loom ( I think it's a toy) since I was a child - I could never get the edges to stay straight which frustrated the perfectionist in me!
And assuming that Job is the oldest book of the Bible, at least chronologically -- just imagine the millennia of weavers that have gone before you! How fun to carry on an age-old tradition...
ReplyDeleteMy days, too, go by swifter than a weaver's shuttle - I just wish it was WITH a weaver's shuttle rather than with spreadsheets, cookpots and scrub brushes.
ReplyDeleteI love the sound of a weaving shuttle. It is such a soothing sound.
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