I have come to realize why I don’t always keep up with this blog. It’s not always about not having time, sometimes it is just because I run out of things to write about! I don’t know what that really says about me if I’m being perfectly honest. I know I’m not boring, nor does my life have an ounce of boredom to it. It just doesn’t seem like I always have words of wisdom every week. There is the occasional conversation that may take place, and then there it is in the midst of it—a priceless nugget that I could share. Unfortunately, I am noticing that I can forget those priceless nuggets as quickly as they escape my mouth. Thankfully, my most recent “deep” conversation contained a priceless nugget I simply could not forget.
While Forrest Gump’s mother was absolutely right, “Life is like a box of chocolates”—life is also like a puzzle. We can dump all the pieces out of the box, but every individual piece fits into another individual piece…..there are no other options aside from the two pieces that were made to fit each other.
I was thinking back to my own puzzle I call life. I can’t even begin to count the times that I became impatient and forced pieces together thinking that I could make it work. In the end, my picture was all distorted and confusing—I couldn’t make it out. It definitely didn’t look like the picture on the box, but how could that be?
Year after year, I forced pieces together that were never meant to be together. Impatience grew stronger, and my picture became worse. We look at life and think that we can put all of the pieces together ourselves, but we just make a huge mess of things. Like the picture on the box of the puzzle, we have a guide to our life puzzle….your Heavenly Father. He sees the bigger picture while we only see pieces. He knows how those pieces fit together, but because of our impatience and sometimes our own stupidity—we try to do it ourselves and fail every single time. When we finally give in and allow God to put together piece by piece, we can then see why certain relationships and situations did not work out. I know, in my case, I forced relationships that were never meant to be only because I thought I knew better than God did. No wonder they were nothing but chaos and unhappiness. If I had only allowed God to either block them or bless them without any arguments from me. Here I was forcing those pieces together because I didn’t see the bigger picture. I thank God everyday that He didn’t reciprocate the impatience I had towards Him.
He is a good Father and knows what is best for us. So before we go forcing those pieces together, we have to truly open our hearts to what He is telling us. Sometimes that means we have to walk away from the chaos and confusion no matter how badly we may want to stay because our flesh is weak. Trust Him in ALL matters….He will guide you down the right path and put together the most beautiful picture.
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