Pieces to the puzzle...

Life is so complex, almost like a puzzle without an end photo to put it together.   We have all the pieces out in front of us, which ones to use, which place to start, how many times will the pieces not quite come together?  Each of us find a way to live day to day putting pieces together, sometimes it seems like it takes forever to get it moving along, and sometimes we wish we could slow it down.

Like a jigsaw puzzle not all of the pieces fit together, some of us would like to fit another's puzzle piece into ours and it doesn't always work the way we pictured.  We are meant to inter join others along the journey called life, but we don't know how are pieces will fit together.  Sometimes it's through family, a job, church leadership, maybe friendship, maybe through your children you meet another parent and hit it off.  Whatever the scenario we are constantly moving and exiting others lives.  When the puzzle pieces don't fit we seek out another venue.

I have had so many wonderful people in my life, and each one has played a role in putting my puzzle together.  I still have childhood friends I stay in contact with and I have new friends that have made it feel like they were part of the puzzle all along.  Each person has helped me decide what kind of picture my puzzle will turn out to be. The choices I have made have changed the feature from time to time but I know that it will eventually be finished and perfected in its own way.  One day I will have the opportunity to see the masterpiece in which all those in my life have helped me create.  I will see the beauty is all areas, and I will see that when the struggles happened the view was more magnificence when I overcame them.

I have had such a crazy weekend, one where I have noticed that life is short, where I need to help others more, where I need to show my appreciation for all that I have and will receive in the future.  I had the opportunity to attend my church's stake conference where I renewed my testimony for my Savior, and my role to Come a unto Christ...I was able to be present for our ward YW New Beginnings program where we learned about how we are all diamonds in the rough, we all are children of god, imperfect but through life, trials, and continuous progress, repentance, and endurance we can be made into the perfect jewel.  I have added many new pieces to my puzzle, pieces I had lying around but didn't know how to connect them.

I am making my masterpiece one piece at a time, the pieces will eventually fit perfectly together.  Just like in life, if we take each day one at a time, if we focus on the good, if we will be able to do our best to help others complete their puzzle we will find missing pieces to our own puzzle.  Today I am going to continue to piece together the puzzle called life.  I am going to take time to be grateful for each of those pieces, the ones I may not like or be proud of and the ones that have brought me unmeasurable amounts of Joy.  I am going to try to look for those pieces I have missing under the pile, the ones that get pushed aside for another day, today there is Joy in life.

"The reward in a puzzle isn't the completion, but the journey in how it comes together.  The pieces you decide to begin with and how you choose to put it together, is what makes a single puzzle unique to each person...I call this Puzzle, LIFE!"  C.K.R