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The Babe In Color
I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well (Ps. 139:14).
The embroidery for “Birth of a Star” began with fourteen babes, seven boys and seven girls, placed along the outer edges as a frame around the center. You can tell the difference by the color of the stitching in the area shaped like a teardrop inside each babe. Blue threads were used for boys, pink for girls. I chose to embroider this section on handkerchief linen as it is the most appropriate fabric to use for tears.
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Gen. 1:27).
The tear-drop has gentle waves of buttonhole stitching around the edges to indicate fluidity. Therefore each babe is equipped with tears for repentance from dead works in order to have faith in God.
“With joy ye shall draw water out of the wells of salvation” (Isa. 12:3).
The tear drop is located in the middle of the babe, “at the heart” as it were. By considering both the tear drop and surrounding flame together, baptism comes to mind, baptism of water and baptism of the Holy Spirit. Baptism is at the heart of one’s spiritual journey. As John the Baptist said,
“I baptize you in water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I. He Himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Mt. 3:11).
The gold flame of fire around the teardrop is stitched in the basket‑weave stitch in remembrance of the vessel in which Moses’ mother set her babe adrift. She must have been angry that Pharoah had ordered her to kill her baby. I would be. Even so, she controlled her anger and sought a godly way in which to express it; therefore, the flame represents controlled anger.
For Thou didst form my inward parts;
Thou didst weave me in my mother’s womb (Ps. 139:13).
The red dots within the flame represent outbursts of anger, “seeing red”, as they say. Anger is a normal part of life. At times we forget that God has anger, too. Anger can be constructive if controlled, or destructive if uncontrolled. I am certain that by the time Moses’ mother set her baby adrift in the basket her anger had dissipated and her focus was on faith.
Be angry, but sin not (Eph. 4:26).
The rest of the babe’s body was worked in a striped pattern in two colors of red represents blood. pulsing to and from the heart.
The life of the flesh is in the blood (Lev. 17:11).
On the very day I finished stitching “the bloods” the Lord placed before me this Scripture: “I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for me?” (Jer. 32:27).
Each babe has an eye for seeing. May it be the eyes of faith!
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe (Eph. 1:18-19).
Each babe is outlined in several rows of chain-stitch in graduated colors.
The Lord made you and formed you in the womb (Isa. 44:2)
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