You know the way for me
You know the time
Into your hands
I trustingly place mine 
Your plan is perfect 
Born of perfect love
You know the way for me
 That is enough 

June 2020
 
            One missing puzzle piece!  The time, effort, and energy into putting together a puzzle and it is missing one little piece.  Missing right in the middle of the puzzle nonetheless.  We searched, and searched, and searched again.  To no avail could we find the missing piece.  The puzzle was glued together, framed, and put on a wall.  It was beautiful, but something was indeed missing.  Days passed.  Weeks passed.  Our daughter just the other day wanted to show us something in her room.  She had found the missing piece! Clearly where a piece was missing was now a complete and perfect picture.  What was lost was found! Isn’t our faith journey like a puzzle? Our heavenly father provides piece after piece.  Sometimes this process is quick, while at times in our estimation slow.  Our most gracious Father giving us all we need, when we need it, where we need it, all while completing his whole version of us. In our Father’s image and likeness. He desires us so we can be whole in Him.  However, we can be the missing piece.  Often, we are the piece that wanders.  We are the piece that gets off the beaten path, that piece that succumbs to sin, that piece that ultimately becomes lost.  We become that missing piece that creates a hole right in the center of his most sacred heart.  But through the sacrifice of His most beloved son, that is where our piece can always be restored.  Or should I say peace?  That is what our gracious Father graces us with when He has connected our hope to Him.  When in his glory, our Lord fully unites our heart to His. At that point, it doesn’t matter what piece is missing.  It doesn’t matter where we are.  It doesn’t matter where we have been.  In that moment we have been made whole! Thank you, dear Father, for being the true architect of each of our lives.  Thank you for knowing how those pieces fit and thank you for the grace to be allowed to see that complete picture. 
 
“Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.”
Romans 12:2



Submitted by an anonymous Schoenstatt  member