Seth’s World View

It’s like a vast puzzle, where I glimpse portions, capture images, but it remains an incomplete work. It’s always hard to put together a puzzle when you don’t know what it’s supposed to look like, even harder when a few pieces aren’t in the box. And then I’m handed a few keys pieces, but they are strange pieces, and some cause confusion in my soul. I wrestle with where to place them, stare at the table for hours, get lost in the blank spaces. And then I see where a piece goes, I place it, and suddenly two sections that made no sense fit together. The next piece is frustrating though, and I get upset, mad, angry, and just lose focus for days dealing with that piece. The puzzle suddenly makes no sense, and I’m tempting yet again to give up on the whole puzzle and just settle for the section in the corner, the one that makes sense, the one I had previously found comfortable. But no, this time is different, people’s lives depend on me filling in the blanks, on seeing a bigger picture, and understanding where I fit within it. So I continue, and continue, and look, and feel, and there it is, the edges meet, the piece fits, and a section that had been floating in the middle of the puzzle suddenly has a connection to the whole. The picture takes shape, and other pieces fall in place. And then I see it, an imperfect, but perceptible image, it’s larger, more clear, and more beautiful. It’s…it’s…an outline of me, and more, mountains, cities, people. It’s the shape of things to come. It’s my heart to show to the world. It’s the defining portrait whereby no one else can tell me who I am or what I can do, except the one who created me, the one who loves me, the one who put me in the midst of this grand puzzle. And now, anything is possible.