Starch Your Spiritual Wings: Faultless Flying in God’s Formation
Starch for Your Spiritual Wings:
Be the angel flying faultlessly in God’s formation,
every fiber infused with the strength of the Spirit.
This week, as we went about our kimenink business, my mind was going as fast as my fingers.
You know how it is. You’re doing repetitive work, like tying 75 tassels for a Christmas card order.
Or tying knots reviving your macramé muscles.
Those macramé muscles made angels and feathers for this post.
My angels didn’t look so good, until they got some starch in their fibers.
The knots were fine. From the first half hitch, to the lark’s head knots forming the halo, everything was built right. The “basic bones” were there.
As you knot an angel, you work on a table (or lap-desk made out of a big tray, in my case). After the knots are done you comb out the fibers to create the shape of the wings and flowing skirts of the angel. And she looks good. On the table.
Then you pick her up, and… the wings go limp. The fibers, combed out, don’t have enough body to hold their shape. They just sort of slump and look sad.
So I got to thinking about the ability of starch to create a better angel.
Starch creates stronger wings.
With the application of Faultless Spray Starch, my angel began to look happy and productive. She looks like an angel you can rely on and you’d go to for direction on how to be the best angel you can be.
It’s truly amazing what an application of starch can do.
I want to be a good angel, on this earth first of all. Because that’s God’s work for me right now, to thrive on this earth. I haven’t earned my Heavenly wings yet. So I’m in search of Faultless starch to infuse me with power for my work.
I can’t do a lot of good with slumped and gnarly wings. Every combed fiber able to hold its place, and do the job it’s meant to do.
Here’s God’s Word on acquiring starch for your everyday wings, so you can fly the way you want to:
”
But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control;
against such things there is no law.
And those who belong to Christ Jesus
have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
”
Galatians 5:22-24 ESV
Your wings need an infusion of the Fruit of the Spirit. Every fiber soaked in the starch of these virtues will be able to hold its place and work together to create a profitable angel.
Each fiber needs a good soaking of the starch of the Fruits. So the whole angel is committed, flesh crucified, to support the whole of you in the work of the Lord.
An angel thoroughly infused with passion and power.
She will be an angel flying in formation with all of God’s angels, suffusing the world with His goodness.
She’ll have starch in her very fibers, keeping her straight and tall in her Christ-given talents and Godly goals.
Starch your spiritual wings for faultless flying in God’s formation.
