Of Life Love and Living

For years repeated chord progressions passed pressed under my fingers on my guitar, linked with passion and beauty, yearning for lyrics that equaled their etherial, mesmerizing qualities and for years they have been unanswered until now. It seems my heart, being forged and fashioned by the depth of diving deeply into life have brought me to a time my senses now elevated, see and hear with new found verve for life, love and living.

How often it seems my days were spent in just muddling through each one, each moment each morsel of routine until it's finale, only to plunk my head, my pillow waiting as respite from it all. Every day filled with things to do, or places, or people, or work, and like laundry, never the task ever finished. Yet now, I find the identical tasks more rich and beautiful than ever before, for I used to focus on their doing, but now discover the profoundness of their forging, fashioning my life and heart into one of depth and character unattainable any other way.

Life is lived in bits and pieces, like the undistiguishable pieces of a puzzle scattered on the table before us. Each piece seemingly insignificant, requires a discerning eye examining color and shape with diligence in order to find its final home and part of the whole. There are some easier to place, the edges that surround the life, with a great deal of satisfaction in it's completion, but the richness of all that is the life, its interior, takes time to place piece by piece, day by day.

I now find myself ceasing for a time from looking ahead toward life, love and living, to turning back, standing back to gaze at the puzzle of my life and what has already been assembled, rather than being consumed with the placement of the next piece. As I did, a flood of feelings filled my heart, washed with a wave of warmth huddling me before my Lord. Now fifty two years of His puzzle building has assembled something far beyond what I could have ever imagined or dreamed.

My music now takes a huge turn, my words and lyrics a deeply forged passion flowing from life, love and living, for truly as I look back, I see incredible grace washing over my ordinary life, building an extraordinary puzzle that He alone, yes God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, have forged in me.

What do you see of your life, love and living? Are you abandoning things and people who are part of your puzzle, seeking something or someone that wants to destroy it? Will you return to your first love, remain diligent in seeking the master puzzlemaker and obedient to His calling in your life? Will you let Him do as He has in me, taking an ordinary life, a sin filled life and build an extraordinary puzzle?
My life continues with many mistakes, falls, errors, even disappointments, but when I hold dear all the things He established in my life, He washes me with His grace, and transforms my weaknesses in His glory. It is now time for us all to submit to the Master Puzzlemaker, bringing His sweetness and fragrance to a desperate world in need.