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Puzzles We Are

Stormy days are days for patience and passing time while we wait for clearer skies.  It’s a day for doing puzzles – challenging or otherwise.    We know the end result with puzzles – a beautiful scene, a person, or perhaps something a bit obscure, like the periodic table of the elements I took on while waiting for tropical storm Hermine to pass by…while waiting…while waiting…while waiting. 

Puzzles start off as chaos with many shapes, sizes, and colors in total disarray spread out on a table before us.    We look for matches and patterns while slowly piecing it all together until finally – order and completeness.

It’s sort of like life.   Life can be a puzzle with many pieces we must put in order.  Chaos is not an option although for many of us chaos seems to be the rule of the day – or week, or month. 

Perhaps through prayer, the hand of God can help us find the right placement of our pieces so our picture eventually comes into focus.  In my periodic table puzzle that nears finishing, I see all the elements in the universe.  I still look for matches and patterns in my own life that is not yet finished.  Time for a prayer.

Deacon David Pierce

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