Last updated: August 18, 2025
Jigsaw Puzzle by Sally I. Kennedy
Life was a slow, easy pace at the cottage on the lake, where I spent many summers as a child. There was always a jigsaw puzzle on the card table. Somehow it was like a magnet, drawing me as I passed by, “Sit down, and put that one piece in.”
Early on, we had photos of puppies and kittens in baskets with large pieces. Later, country landscapes with tiny pieces. As soon as we’d finish one, we’d begin another. Dump out the box. Save any pieces already stuck together for a head start. Prop up the lid so the finished picture is visible.
Soon puzzle pieces would be scattered everywhere on the tabletop. Mom taught us, “Separate the pieces with straight, outside edges. Find the four corners, and make the frame before starting the rest.”
What if there had been no cover picture to guide us and help put the pieces together? We don’t have a lid to look at, with a finished photo, for the puzzles of our lives. God, however, knows exactly and precisely what the picture looks like.
I recall my little sister would pick up a piece and determinedly declare, “These fits!” as she would try to force the cardboard into the space. How often I try to squeeze something into my life that is not supposed to be there, not designed for that particular time and place.
One day at a time, as we turn our lives over to Him, the Lord gives us a piece for the day. “It’s a puzzlement!”…the King of Siam, to Anna, in the musical, The King and I. Yes, well, not to Someone.
That’s good news.
Meditation: Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself…..each day has enough trouble of its own. – Matthew 6:34
Jesus Loves You!
Also read:
- Jigsaw Puzzle
- Understanding God: He is Resourceful
- How Not to Provoke God to Anger (3)
- Threads of Providence
- God’s Favour Upon My Life!
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