Puzzles

Last night, I became lost in my thoughts and this thought came to me... just because you find a missing piece to a puzzle doesn't mean the puzzle is complete.  Was it an epiphany or was it something God wanted me to know.

Sometimes life can be compared to a puzzle.  Our lives begin in a box, the womb. When we are born our pieces are dumped out... so begins our journey of putting the pieces together to form our lives. Each new adventure... each new event... each new day is another piece of the puzzle.

As we get older and experience the events of growing up, getting married, having children and living our lives, we may think or feel our puzzle is complete. Life is good, we are happy, what more could possibly be added to our puzzle? Grandchildren possibly?

Then there are the times when something happens and our puzzles become torn apart and some pieces are removed, scattered and/or lost. We begin to rebuild our puzzles, adding the new pieces as they come. Sometimes the pieces fit, sometimes they don't. We try again. Eventually all the pieces come together once again.  We even find surprise pieces we didn't know were missing. Life is once again good and complete.

Someone asked me if we really do find all the pieces to the puzzle and my response was... I do believe some people are lucky enough to find all the pieces. It just depends on how many pieces you choose for your puzzle to have.

May your puzzle have all the pieces it needs to make to become a masterpiece... worthy of hanging on the wall for all to see.  



Epiphany - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.