In 2018 I decided to work on a puzzle during my weekend away to celebrate my late husband. I was struggling to get the frame all together (my preferred way to start a puzzle). My daughter got to the condo and said “I think this red goes down in this corner” and the whole right side became the bottom of the puzzle!
Isn’t this so true of life? Things look one way, and sometimes we are just sure it’s right! I might not have finished that puzzle because I was so sure it was right. How many times in life do we think we have something figured out, only to discover we didn’t? The puzzle wasn’t fitting together until we took a different direction, or considered things differently.
Another thing to consider, to learn about life is that we can’t do it alone. Both my son and my daughter helped me finish the puzzle.
God created Eve because He knew it was not good for man to be alone. We are created to be in community with each other. To enjoy each other’s company, to help each other and to be there for each other. We shouldn’t try to do life all alone and even more we are called to be there for others.
I think we get a lot wrong in life…. our puzzle pieces aren’t in the right place, but this is one place we can work on daily. One thing is we can right and have the puzzle coming together. Just be there for others.
Phil 2: 1-7 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Father, may we understand how You are placing the pieces of our puzzle to form the picture of our life. Make we work with You so that others are not alone and thus neither are we. May we look forward to each piece creating the master piece that is our life. Amen.
Grace Under Pressure 