Puzzling It Together

Perhaps when we are born there are pieces of our life puzzle scattered throughout this time bound way we live as humans. Perhaps there is a finite number of puzzle pieces, each specific and unique, made just for each of us. Perhaps when that final piece falls into place our work here on this human plane is completed. Perhaps that’s how it works.

I think in many ways this is a metaphor for my life. I don’t know how many pieces there are to the puzzle. I have often tried to fit a puzzle piece in, trying to force it to match, to fit in, when it is not the puzzle piece that I am to use, nor is it mine to claim. It is for another. 

Instead if, and this is a huge if, I can just release the searching for the puzzle pieces and trust that they will show up as they always do, appearing when I am least expecting, when I am most open, when I am not searching and just allowing life to come to me, to flow in the moment as it appears. Then, just like with the puzzle, a new piece effortlessly finds its way into the myriad and the maze the puzzle pieces of my life.

I may go months, years and perhaps even decades without a single piece finding its way into the Puzzle of My Life. During these times, I know, it is just a part of the puzzle piece being formed. How the edges are becoming perfectly honed so that, when the time arrives, the piece fits effortlessly, connecting some dots that I didn’t even know were unconnected.

I embrace this metaphor and trust that this just might be how life works. I mostly enjoy living in this human body, feeling no urgency or even a  calling to leave it. I do, however, often struggle with this spiritual path. It is hard for me to let go of the sense of yearning towards arriving, like leaning into a strong wind that holds you in one place, no matter the effort to move an inch forward. As if when I arrive, there will be a feeling of somehow completely and fully feeling connected to Presence, whole and holy, yet in the human body. 

I don’t really think this is how it works. My inner being knows that it is a journey not a destination. Yet the right side of my brain again and again and again says ‘have we arrived yet?’ Maybe it’s just around the corner. Perhaps if you were a bit more disciplined, or loving, or less selfish, or…you would make more progress. 

So when I think of this as puzzle pieces falling from the sky at some Divine Direction and timing that I have no control over, it helps me remember, and be invited to embrace the journey of what is in front of me. To embrace this present moment without concern to somehow fitting all the pieces where there are gaps. They will show up. And when that last gap is filled, and I live fully in Divine Connection, then I will leave my human body and move fully into a state of timelessness, embracing whatever it is that exists outside of this human plain.  

For now, I’ll allow the new puzzle piece to be carefully and lovingly honed.    

Join me for any of a number of offerings designed to carefully invite the allowing of the next puzzle piece of your life to be honed - spiritual direction, sound immersion, or maybe body psychology/ yoga therapy. 

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