Lego focus
This past weekend was one full of fun. Along with Easter and the family get together/egg hunt/church service etc it was also a birthday for one of our boys. Since one of his favorite things is Legos, he received tons of them. "Look dad this one has nearly 1000 pieces!"
So, in the "down" time between celebrations we/I (and others) put together AT-STs and Bionicles and B-wing fighters… For awhile we had a system, one of us would sort by color or strange shapes and then other would snap them in place and eventually we would swap jobs. But a 7 year old attention span is only so long when you've got a "gun" built.
One in particular got dumped out on the kitchen table. There I am in the midst of building the "complicated" B-wing fighter and step 104 shows 2 pieces that are gray and circular with two holes in the middle. I can't find them. I looked and looked through the gray and the light gray pieces, the black, yellow and white; then the clear red and khaki. I looked again through the myriad of pieces on the table. There is one with 3 holes and one that is a different shade of the same color… I looked at the inventory at the back of the book and sure enought it shows 2. I flipped over the big pieces to make sure nothing is hiding under one of them. Finally, after several passes over the pile I found what I was looking for.
I felt victorious. I had been at that point of frustration, like I had done all I could but there was that cute little face waiting to play with the newest toy and I knew I couldn't give up. Later it struck me as I thought about my search. I'd seen a lot of pieces in that pile, lots of shapes and cool colors and I had looked it over several times then, "poof" there it was. Does life ever feel like that? One minute, or hour, or day, a week, a month, or a year may seem like a big pile of pieces all jumbled together and mixed up when suddenly what you've been looking for is found and you realize it has been there all along. A lot of times we find focus only after such an intense, often fruitless search. Then, that piece becomes our purpose that puts our priorities in place. It is something or Someone who has been there all along that completes our lives and gives it more meaning than we thought possible. I hope you find that piece in God.