concentric design

strong

handmade (actually leg-made)

elastic

silk

sticky

for eggs

to gather food

This usually small creature spins such a web with function and beauty.

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God created me with function and beauty too.

God knitted me in my mother’s womb.  He knew me before I was ever born.

The LORD called me before I was born.

He named me while I was in my mother’s womb.  Isaiah 49:1b

And He had then and still has plans for me.  He is weaving them into my life moment by moment.

For I know the plans I have for you”  — this is the LORD’s declaration — “plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.  Jeremiah 29:11

Thank You, Father, for loving me with such affection.  You want the best for me and have given me the beauty that You want me to have.  Inner beauty of a quiet and gentle spirit seems to fit me more often than not.  When not, You forgive me and I am grateful.  As the spider does the work You have given her to do so well, You have given me gifts and plans that I want to beautifully accomplish too.  I call upon Your Name as I pray to be near You with each moment.  You are my LORD.  I want to glorify You through what You have planned for me.  In the Beautiful Name of Jesus, I pray.  Amen.

 
To catch up on the previous days of this 31 day challenge, you can find them listed here.

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Spider Web photo:  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spider_web_with_dew_drops04.jpg

• “Dew drops on a spiders web early on a winter’s morning. There had been a fog earlier which may have caused the dew drop coating.
• “Taken in Swifts Creek, Victoria in June 2007”
• fir0002 | flagstaffotos.com.au