Do you ever feel like you’re trying to put the pieces of your life together but don’t have a clear sense of the picture you’re making? I put this whole puzzle together before realizing the full picture was on the back of the box. I was looking at the front of the box, and thinking that I had to figure out the final picture on my own. What I didn’t realize (because I didn’t read the small print), was that if I turned the box around, what I needed was right in front of me.
It made me think of times in my life when I have gotten frustrated and overwhelmed with the feeling that I am trying to put together the pieces of my puzzle, but I have no idea what the final picture is supposed to look like. But when I am reminded to slow down, to zoom in on the guidance and wisdom that has been given to me, and maybe to look at what is in front of me from a different perspective, I realize that maybe I have what I actually do have what I need for whatever I’m facing.
Where do you feel like you’re putting together a puzzle without the final picture? How do you navigate that feeling? Where might you be being invited to slow down and consider the puzzle from a different perspective, which might help you realize that you have what you need for whatever you’re facing?