We have in the store a simple loom set up that customers can interact with.  There is a basket of odds and ends of yarns, fabric and even some beads.  Alongside the loom are these words:

Our lives are but a tapestry.  We weave into our lives the threads we have been given.  Some threads are strong and hard to break.  That's because they are twined together with other threads that represent those in our lives who have helped hold us together.

Some threads, like spun wool, have thick and thin places in the wool.  When pressure is applied, when we try to break the wool, those thin places come apart.

But when water and heat are applied to wool, when it is agitated then it becomes strong.  So strong you can't tear it apart.  When heat is applied to synthetics they melt.  When heat is applied to wool it smolders and burn itself out.

This is true in our lives too!  When we overcome tension, agitation, and grief we find in the end we are stronger, softer, firmer, and held together with every fiber of our being.

If our lives are synthetic they will disintegrate!