Each piece of glass has a place. I don’t know what the big picture is. I don’t know which piece goes where. I pick up the tiny pieces and begin to fit them like a puzzle, plotting a design, seeing a picture here and there…I begin to think I should plan it all out before I glue them down, shouldn’t I? That way they will fit, and I will have no empty or mismatched places.
The thought occurs to me, wildly, that NO! I should just pick up what I love; the color or the shape or the one that fits just right in that space, then glue it without concern for what comes next! It does not matter that I might search and search for just the right piece or that perhaps I may not even find the proper pieces at all and the final outcome will not be complete.
The ‘what comes next’ part is my hangup. I don’t want to take a chance of messing up. I don’t want to start without knowing the plan will succeed.
This has been the point of this exercise, this project, this outlet…
ohhhh…….
Father God has brought me to this place of SEEING that the seeing is piece by piece. It is not my job to know the whole outcome, the picture, the results. It is only my call to place each piece down on the board with total commitment; no hedging of bets, no back up plan. I must jump in ‘full-tilt boogey’.
“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now, I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I have been fully known.”
-1 Corinthians 13:12
