Imagine, today you and a friend were supposed to go for a run, and unfortunately, it started to rain. So instead you decide to work on a 1,000-piece puzzle. You may not be the type to do puzzles because you just don't have the patience for it, but today you enjoy the puzzle and here is why.
As you start to work on putting together the pieces, you realize something. You sit at the table for hours trying to figure out the very simple section you are working on putting together. You have picked out all of the pieces from the box, and have put them in a pile. As you are trying to fit every piece together you catch yourself saying "This piece doesn't belong. I believe there is still a piece missing. It looked like this piece fit perfectly here, but it was deceiving. I need to look for another piece to fill this spot. Hey, do you maybe have it?" You also catch yourself trying to alter pieces that YOU KNOW FOR A FACT fit together for other pieces to take the place of them.
This is the way our everyday life works. Sometimes you need to step back and look at your life as a one big, beautiful puzzle. You will see some of your pieces (people, habits, places, possessions) just don't belong in your puzzle. Maybe for a short time those pieces do fit, at least you think they do until life takes those pieces and shows you something that fits even better. But you get yourself into a mess when you start to alter your pieces that 100 percent belong there (prayer, family, church, love, peace). If you alter these pieces you find yourself confused and making decisions that you typically wouldn't make. And with this, you start grabbing for random pieces that don't even look like the picture you're supposed to be focused on; they belong somewhere else, specifically not in your life. When you caught yourself reaching for some of your friend's puzzles pieces, this is a perfect example of trying to fit in with the crowd, doing what everyone else is doing, having what everyone else has. But all along you have the perfect puzzle piece in your hand and all you have to do is maybe turn it sideways, and look at it in a different perspective.
