A Piece in the Jigsaw Puzzle
Photo By: Michael Dziedzic https://unsplash.com/@lazycreekimages
How can we know that we are enough? When our mind has set an expectation and events are not aligning with the desire, how can we trust that we are enough and that success will be reached? What is our definition of success? Do we and should we have control over what turns out and what we want to contribute?
As we all wander amidst the table where the jigsaw puzzle is assembled, our minds are concentrating on the picture on the box we all came from, the image of what we think we must become. We are each one piece among many others holding our own picture that will connect to another and contribute to the whole. If the big picture was a landscape of sky,ocean and land, what if the picture we hold is meant to be dark and in a corner instead of bright and in the center? Even though it doesn't feel like our piece receives the desired attention right now, what would the big picture look like without us there? There would be a hole, an obviously missing piece without us contributing as we are.
As we all scramble on the table and await to find out our placement in the big picture, we forget that creation is an evolving process and that we can trust with patience that the puzzle maker knows the picture and is working on it. We don’t feel like the puzzle piece that we are when we are anticipating the big picture without the evolution in mind, but it doesn't change the piece that we are or our role in the big picture. Perhaps it isn't our time to fill the gap in the bright sky. That doesn't mean that we're not meant to, it just means that it isn’t time yet and that we are meant to be as we are, working on who we are.
Success for us as a piece of the puzzle doesn't have to mean being bright and noticed, it's simply knowing how to fit in with others while contributing our piece to the big picture. We are enough as the piece we are as long as we're willing to maintain our picture(who we are) for the big picture. There is nothing we must be but what we are and there is no reason to anticipate what we don't yet know. We are enough as we are and allowed to enjoy the process of coming together, individually and as a community.
