You know those days/weeks/months where you know God is weaving together some larger message to you. Where one simple song, one thought, one message, one experience all feel like they are interconnected and you are sure there is a message in there somewhere but its like putting a puzzle together and each little piece you see more. That is how this last week has been for me. I’m not sure if its the holiday season and my mind just goes to everything out there that you can do to help….or is it me working on some personal issues…I have no idea what its all about but here is what is on my heart….here are my puzzle pieces.

Puzzle piece #1: I read this blog and have mentioned it on here before. Her journey amazes and inspires me. Check out her post here for some of the background of this amazing life. Although each and every post on that blog speaks to me in more ways than one, this one just resonated in me.

Grace is maybe 60 years old but looks to be pushing 100. She can’t weigh more than 85 pounds. Grace is a mother to six children, but 4 have died of AIDS and the other two have deserted her for a better life. She lives in a 4 by 4 foot room that is pitch black, but she doesn’t mind; in addition to being to weak to walk, Grace is blind. She NEVER has any visitors. At night her bones ache against the hard dirt floor and her feeble body shivers with cold. A cough racks her body and her stomach rumbles in hunger making sleep impossible.

Its sad, huh? How sad though? Sad enough that we want to do sometime about it? Sad enough that we will remember Grace tonight as we snuggle down into our beds or next month as we pay the bills? Maybe. But maybe not. Because it hurts, but it doesn’t hurt that much. It doesn’t hurt the way it would if Grace was your grandmother all alone there in the dark. It does for God. Because Grace is His.

Puzzle piece #2: I got the privilege of going to Casting Crowns this week with some girls (thanks girls for inviting me along!!) It was an amazing concert that was more of a worship service. It was challenging to me in more ways than one…it was a call to action, I think peopleI get bogged down in the thought of the whole picture like changing the world but what it really takes is one step, one action to start making a difference. How are you going to change the world when you can’t even do one thing a day that makes a difference in this world? Two things that stood out…
-”I want to sign Your name to the end of this day knowing that my heart was true”
-”sing until the whole world hears” (The background to this song is that the lead singer had a mentor who would write back and forth to him. Every letter was signed “sing until the whole world hears”. Love that!)

The whole song “until the whole world hears” is awesome! Here it is…

Puzzle piece #3: I love quotes. I think I’ve mentioned that on here before. My fave is “be the change you wish to see in this world”. Love it. It gets me every time because you could think on those 10 words forever and it always pushes you to be more.

I ran into a quote the other day that was like that. So simple and so thoughtful. And of course I didn’t write it down so I can’t find it exactly but it was something like “the live you live everyday is the life you live.” It’s not one of those live your dreams motivational quote, its more of a slap in the face saying that gives it to you straight. While you are sitting there thinking of everything you can do and be, you are what you are doing that day, how you live each day. You can sit there and imagine your life one way but unless you are doing it and working on it daily then its just your imagination.

So, there are my puzzle pieces…not sure what the whole picture is or I may never know…but that is what has been on my heart this week. What are your puzzle pieces?

**whoops, hit publish instead of schedule and its only Sunday…oh well, an extra day to ponder:)

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