Life Explained Through Puzzles
It was about 8:20 last Friday night when I finally looked at our coffee table and decided it was time to clean it off.For the past 3 months, on it sat the finished one thousand-piece Thomas Kinkade puzzle Dave and I had finished together.
Dave likes putting puzzles together; but he's less attached to the finished product than me. He also has different ideas about the puzzle process (which is what makes him so interesting).Initially, my idea of the puzzle went something like this:"I'll put the puzzle together piece by piece in less than a month...then I'll display it for about a week, (because it was hard work, ok?!)...and then I'll glue it to a very nice background, frame it, and hang it somewhere around the house.Clearly, as I'm looking at the finished product still on the table, it didn't turn out that way.Sometimes we look at our lives like I looked at that puzzle. We've got it all planned out...we've got the pieces all lined up, we decide how we want lay it out, how we'll put it together, and how it'll end up.But life + God has a funny way of teaching you things don't go as we might have planned. For me, that might have looked something like married at 25, 2.5 kids with a brown picket fence (because I'm brown lol) by 30, med school, etc etc etc....The strangest thing is, had I gotten the things I thought I wanted, I would have surely been unhappy.
The moral of this short story is trust the process, no matter what the puzzle journey currently looks like. I believe God has a distinct plan for each of us that is bigger than even our wildest dreams.Happy Friday.-ASC“'For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the LORD, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope.”~JEREMIAH 29:11