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The pieces of your life puzzle

 

 

Do you like solving jigsaw puzzles? My wife does. And because I like being with my wife, I often get drawn into these as well. Having two people working together makes for a more enjoyable and less maddening approach. We typically work on separate parts of the puzzle, but stop to help the other look for pieces of a certain color or shape or pattern that they need.

Have you ever nearly reached the end of a large puzzle only to discover that you are missing one or more pieces? Likely lost to a vacuum cleaner or misplaced in another puzzle box, the missing pieces leave us with a sense of dissatisfaction.

That might be a metaphor for life. We naturally have this drive for a sense of completion and fulfillment in our lives, but often find ourselves still looking for pieces to our puzzle. My mother always told me that we ought to pay attention to others because God gave them some of the pieces to our puzzle and he gave us some of the pieces of theirs.

In the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Watson would often make some seemingly obtuse observation that Sherlock would use it to tie everything together. It is like that for us too. It seems God draws us together knowing we are more complete in a community of friends than alone.

Another truth is that if God is missing from our lives, if He has slipped from our daily focus, our life puzzle will always be missing a vital piece. Without Him, we will always be lost and incomplete. God knows exactly how our lives all fit together and He makes it beautifully complete. Tell Him about the pieces you are missing and ask Him about your ‘extra’ pieces that belong to someone else. Best is the puzzled life that becomes wholly and holy His.

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11