tangible things

I think one reason I like to make drawstring bags is that the result is something nice (I've always liked drawstring bags, even as a child), and it is still just as nice the next day. Something tangible that lasts longer than the meal I made for our supper or the laundry just folded or the neatened living room.

Tangible things are also nice because it is easy to see if you are doing it right or not. Parenting is intangible, unique to each child - and my finite mind does not fully understand the personality and thinking of each child, nor have the wisdom to know how to raise them. My best judgment is only that, and there is often second-guessing. I can't see if it was right, or could be better, like I can with sewing.

On the other hand, the tangible is the temporary. Drawstring bags will perish with the earth, but my child has an undying soul, and in some mysterious way, my efforts to train my child will have everlasting impact, for good or evil. There is permanency to that which is intangible.

"For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal." (2 Corinthians 4:18)