Like an unfinished puzzle, I try to make sense of the pieces of my heart. A rainbow of colors, a myriad of people and places. Pieces of the past, the present, my life up until now. Moments cut out for just for me. Moments of joy and sorrow intertwined. Some pieces are stuck together, but most lay apart, disconnected, in no particular order.
I grab a piece and try to set it in place. It doesn’t fit.
My heart remains in pieces. A piece of my heart:
* aches for a precious loved one who is losing her physical strength.
* grapples to let go of my soon-to-graduate-high-school son.
* reaches for biblical answers to life’s questions to share with my daughter.
* celebrates almost twenty years of marriage, a God thing.
* weeps for those who feel forgotten, wounded, or still stuck in shame or self-hatred.
* grieves for the years I wasted chasing after the wind.
* dreams about creative ways to share hope with words and pictures.
* wishes everyone would know the healing love of Jesus.And this is only eight pieces of my heart…
How about you? Is your heart in pieces?
Recently I heard about our lives being like a jigsaw puzzle where God doesn’t show us the lid. By His design, we don’t see what He is creating in us before it’s time. So I decided to ask God about my life pieces.
In my heart I heard His whisper, “I Am Master. You are pieces. I love to use broken pieces. Trust Me. Give me your pieces. Together we make a Masterpiece.”
What a gift to know God sees the full picture when I only see a mess of a puzzle.
So will you give God the broken pieces of your heart today?
He’s willing to connect them for you as you do.
And hey, I already see a beautiful masterpiece. It’s you!
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Ephesians 2:10
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. Psalm 51:17
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3
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This is an entry for the She Speaks scholarship (valued at $595) over at Ann’s A Holy Experience blog. I’m jumping in at the tail end of the submission deadline. If you are interested in attending an amazing conference for writers, speakers, leaders, and women in ministry, hurry up and write something before Saturday at 9am EST. This is going to be a powerful time for women to seek God’s heart and learn together.
Yep…I am pieces…scattered…broken…separated by loss…yep…just pieces….
I am praying HARD that God opens the door for She Speaks for you this year!!!!
Maybe next year for me:)
So thankful I got to hug your neck recently. Believing for God to take our pieces and make us whole.
Tiffany…
I resonate with scattered pieces of a puzzle that needs putting together! I especially hear your heart regarding the “letting go” of a graduating son. Girl, that nearly ripped me wide open 4 years ago. Now I prepare for his graduation from college and off to grad school. I’m better equipped this go around, but it was a hard portion of “growth” for me when I first took him to college. There’s no perfect way of doing it, sister. It’s a kick in the gut, but I wanted you to know I’ll say a prayer for you as the Lord prompts. And I really hope to see you at She Speaks this year. I plan on being there.
peace~elaine
I so want to meet you, Elaine. B told me she talked to you recently. What a blessing you are to so many, including me.
Thanks for the encouragement. I’ll need it.
Hi Tiffany, I have followed your blog since forever (ha ha) and saw today you have moved it. I don’t see a follow button here, am I just not seeing it?
I am giving away a copy of a book about contentment today, on my blog.
Follow button is at the bottom of my blog. 🙂 I’ll stop by and see your book giveaway. Hugs!
Tiffers!! So hope you win!! I totally missed the deadline 🙁 I thought it was 9 PM… what a week it’s been!! Praying we hug at She Speaks this summer! xoxo
To dream, yes, Lord, we dream of meeting at She Speaks. Pretty please.
Beautiful post, Tiffany. What a wonderful God who takes our broken pieces to sculpt something beautiful in His Kingdom!
Yes, God loves to make beauty out of brokenness. Hugs, Lisa.
Beautiful Tiffany!!!!
Thanks, Stephanie.
I found your blog among the many posted on Ann’s site. Your’s is the only one I felt prompted to comment on. It was absolutely beautiful, as are you. Your entire page blessed my heart: the postings, the photos, the SL&L, the prayers. I just wanted you to know that God used your gifts to bless me this evening. If it is not God’s will for me to get the scholarship, I hope you get it. 🙂 I would love for you to get to see your friend and give her a hug. May God continue to richly bless you my dear sister-in-Christ.
Beverly
Yes, I often feel like my heart is in pieces. God is the only one who can really put it together the way it should be. I am so thankful that He takes the broken pieces of my heart and creates a masterpiece!
Barbie, I’m glad I’m not alone. Yes, God does take our broken pieces. So thankful for this truth. And I love your new blog. 🙂 Glad you stopped by for a visit. Hugs
Beatiful post Tiffany. And yes, HE can have all of my pieces!!
Amen, Jennifer!