Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Puzzling

Our lives are like
a new puzzle knocked
from the table's end,
spilled from the box
and scattered
by an exuberant toddler.

Some of us have more pieces
still clumped together:
 loving parents, money for school
(or supper, at least),
the thought that God may
not always frown--
but we must, all of us,
still wonder, at times.
What parts of us went missing
that day the world broke?

4 comments:

  1. Yes, it's the human condition, isn't it? Nicely done.

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  2. The Master has all of the pieces - all that He needs anyway!

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  3. David C Brown - thankfully so! And it can be an adventure seeing how He begins to add them back in. Nevertheless (lovely, long word), the final repairing happens where we can't see, yet. I look back on dear Christians' lives, and there is often some aspect of them that never quite bloomed during their time here on earth.

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