I think I am freaking out with this puzzle stuff (ha)! First I started working jigsaw puzzles for pretty much the first time in my life and now I am seeing puzzle analogies all around me.  When I put the last piece of a recent jigsaw puzzle into place I thought of how it represents life in general. The world is really just one gigantic picture puzzle and all five billion of us on this earth right now are simply pieces that make up the current story.  Pieces come and go but the overall puzzle remains pretty much the same.

When we understand that we are just a very small part of the overall scheme of things it keeps us from getting a big-head.  Our piece of the puzzle might be just a little bigger than some others but we don’t really account for more than a minute fraction of the overall puzzle. When we die our place in the puzzle is reconfigured and replaced by someone else.

But on the other hand our piece of the puzzle is just as important as any other so what we do in this life story has much meaning. If too many of us don’t successfully complete our piece then the overall puzzle is out of skelter.  This aligns with one of Gandhi’s quotes that goes something like this “What you do might be insignificant but it is important that you do it”.  We are all small but significant pieces in the world’s puzzle. Don’t ever forget it and don’t ever get an inflated idea of the size of your piece.

Lord, help me get my brain back now!!! :)