I've got a friend somewhere in the world on special assignment who has needed to learn to take the massive amounts of things he has to do ever since several years ago in small bites. Yesterday I finished my Christmas Puppies jigsaw and got Amazonman to order me a couple more dog puzzles for my therapeutic feng shui practice. (Feel free to click on the pic to see some adorable fur-faces.)It occurred to me today that those of us who are brain-scrambled enough to enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles have a good way to remind us of doing one thing...one piece, that is...at a time while not letting things around us stir us to manic behavior to try to do more than what the Lord has "laid out for us beforehand that we should walk in it." (cf. Ephesians 2:10) In fact, I think it actually gives us practice to break down life's puzzles into chunks that can be put together to understand a bit of the tapestry the Lord is weaving in our lives. OK, so I've mixed my metaphors...sue me. ;p
You people who are freaking out about "the rest of your life"...especially when your moron brothers and sisters in the Lord bring up the subject because they have nothing better to do with their time...RELAX!! The rest of your life may never get here, so you'd better start enjoying the part of it you've got today...that's why it's call The Present, cuz the Lord is giving it to you even as you read this rant!
So...have a very merry un-Christmas Day opening your Present! Sweateth Thee not...tomorrow will take care of itself...presupposing it gets here and you're here to see it.
Got James 4:14?!
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