No imagine talking all of those pieces and giving them to 5,000 people, one piece a person. How long would it take to but that puzzle together? No picture, no borders just pieces; how would you start? Where would you start?
This is life. This is life together lived in community with others.
We walk around with our piece. We use our desires and feelings to define our edges. We look at friends and relationships trying to find the perfect fit. We take our pieces to work placing them into the scope of the company making sure our pieces fit just right, or at least well enough that it can be managed. Sometimes we fit into a spot we find thinking its perfect but after time and close examination we see were there is a slight gap between our notch and the others groove or we see that the other is the mountain peak and we are the reflection in the lake and we move on. Yet still sometimes we find a piece and we know its spot is close at hand but we just can't make sense of it yet so we but it some where close by waiting for the picture to become more clear.
That's what happened to Melissa and I. After stepping out in faith believing that this was going to be the year that pieces fell into place. This was the year that we were going to move forward, raise support for the mission field, and figure out where we were headed for the at least the next couple years. We were told that we really like your pieces, we really want your pieces but we just can't see where they fit right now.
So here we are almost a year later. Almost a year after committing to journey to Czech , to put life a hold and explore something new, to press our pieces together and see if there was a fit. We are left with the same pieces, in the same places, with the same mismatches trying to figure out were we fit in now.
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I have found brother, in all the searching I have done, (and, as everyone in the family can attest, that is quite a bit of searching) that we are always right where we are supposed to be at that time. When we look back, we were in the correct position in the puzzle of life. The problem is that life likes to change the picture on us, so we must search again, but, somehow, we always end up wherever it is that we are supposed to be.
Fantastic analogy. I think the hardest things with situations that aren't quite right is to decide if it will never be a right fit or if it will just take time, and growth, that as pieces are added to the mountain peak, and the same with the reflection pieces, the situation that you would previously have never fitted into becomes one that you are now right for.
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