Who needs just ONE puzzle piece?? Right! The person who has the puzzle and is looking for the missing piece!! Tonight I found a lone puzzle piece. I’m certain the puzzle isn’t here in the house. It went home with one of the grandchildren. So without this piece their puzzle isn’t complete. Is your life’s puzzle complete?
In so many ways my life is like a jigsaw puzzle. It is made up of various pieces that when all fit together they make the perfect design God intended for my life. But, if there is a piece that is missing...guess what...I’m really not all that I can be. Neither are you.
All the puzzles I’ve ever worked had the picture of what it was on the top. God’s seen the box top; He designed it by giving us our personality, special talents and abilities. How we piece our life together and live it is our gift back to God. The problem? Well, it could be many of us have simply stopped trying to assemble our pieces and live out a life that honors Him. (Kind of like me giving up on one of those 1000 piece puzzles!) We become complacent and stop trying. Or, many of us are trying to put the pieces together to create that abundant life but are met with one challenge after another and simply can’t seem to find the right pieces that fit together. Yet, for some of us it could be neither of those. It could be like this lone piece reminded me, there could be a missing piece in your puzzle. Perhaps it’s time to go in search of what’s missing.
Is it spiritual? Is it health? Is it family? Is it friendships? Is it finances? Is it career? Is it rest? What pieces of your puzzle do you need to fit into your picture to make it complete? Just ONE piece of a puzzle does you little good. When you have them all and fit together they make a beautiful picture - YOU!
Yesterday Betty and Patsy came to Pine Knoll and brought PUZZLES for the residents. Some of them work really hard at putting a puzzle together and they are successful. The finished puzzles are so pretty. There is a piece missing here. But we know where he is.
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