“Master Eliazar,” a young apprentice once asked, “why do you never look at the top side? Your work looks like a mistake from down here.”
Then the King turned to Eliazar. “You never saw the top side, but you trusted. And because you trusted, you have woven the most beautiful thing in my entire kingdom.” lihim na karunungan ng diyos
Visitors would come to his workshop and see nothing but a chaotic mess: tangled threads hanging down, loose knots, and wild, disconnected colors. Red would suddenly cut off, to be followed by a patch of black. Gold thread would disappear under a tangle of grey. “Master Eliazar,” a young apprentice once asked, “why
“Do you see?” the King said softly. “My weaver worked in darkness, but he held my pattern. What you call confusion, I call the shadow of glory. This is the lihim na karunungan — the hidden wisdom of God. From below, it seems like suffering, loose ends, and chaos. But from above, it is the masterpiece of salvation.” And because you trusted, you have woven the
The crowd gasped.
One day, the King himself visited the village. The people rushed to show him their finest goods. Eliazar hesitated, ashamed of the ugly underside of his life’s work. But the King asked to see it.
When the King saw the tangled mess of threads, he did not laugh. Instead, he gently took the loom and lifted it high above their heads, turning it toward the sunlight.