You Have All the Pieces You Need
By Temple Hayes
When I was a little girl, one of the many moments I cherished was putting together a puzzle with my grandmother, Rubye. Doing a jigsaw puzzle was always fun, especially when we would get near to completion. There would always be one or two pieces that we could not find or that did not seem to fit. We would keep going back to the image on the box and see a color or something on the image that would make us feel confident that the piece would be discovered soon. Never did it occur to us to question the manufacturer about whether the piece was actually there. At times we would almost want to force-fit certain pieces just so we could be done with the puzzle.
Our lives are like a jigsaw puzzle. We trust the manufacturer to provide us with every piece of the puzzle to give us what we need to obtain the image on the box, yet often we do not believe in the manufacturer (our Creator) of our lives. We have all the pieces we need to be the amazing and incredible image we were destined to be. When we force-fit the pieces, we are not able to allow the proper process of our journey to occur.
Here I am many years later still enjoying the thrill of accomplishment when I put those last final pieces together in the puzzle. The only difference is now I do my puzzles on the iPad. This is so much more sophisticated now-a-days with special sounds when the pieces fit and grand music when the puzzle is completed. When the pieces fit, they will no longer be separate, yet when they do not, there is absolutely no way you can make them fit.
Wow, if only this is the way we walked and talked and felt our way through life. Someone or a new adventure is asking to come into our lives and immediately we know it is not a good fit. We can feel that this is not the right move for us and yet often we second guess ourselves. We do not listen and we will go through a number of pains and challenges until we make a different choice.
We do not seem to understand that it is safe to trust life. We do not seem to understand that the true inherent problem with us feeling like life is not giving to us what we deserve is we have not ever given life what our lives deserve. The reason we cannot and do not have faith in our lives is we have not ever truly had faith in ourselves.
The pieces are already there and we have all agreed and declared this, yet the reason we are feeling disconnected and drained is we are not giving ourselves the ability to be truly excited about what is here and what is around the corner. We doubt that once we get around the corner the pieces we need will be there, yet they will not be if we do not fit the proper pieces in right now. Likened to a puzzle you may be working on, you have a group of pieces that have come together but until the surrounding pieces fit in place, the other pieces will not find where they belong.
Ask yourself, “Would I be willing to approach my life from an overview reality and believability that I have all the pieces of the puzzle to fulfill all the dreams of my heart?” “Would I be willing to approach each day with an open heart rather than a guarded one?”
Start each day with the declaration, “I am excited about my life and all the pieces of my puzzle are in place for this to be the best day I have ever had.”
Once you make this declaration and your heart is open, then the magic lies within your own ability to see how effortless life can be. If you are delayed, then you know there is a reason; if someone is late, then you will know the moment is calling for you to do or be something else; if you get rejected, then you know the piece of the puzzle is needing a piece that truly fits and you move on.
This way of life is a practice and in order to reap the benefits it is important to be willing to give it a chance. Do your best not to discount it. And if you ask me why, I would tell you that it took me many years to understand this process because I resisted.
Life works for us once we truly understand how to work with it.
May your journey of finding your right pieces bring you joy beyond your greatest measure and may you discover the deepest inner satisfaction of being excited about your life.
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About the Author
Temple Hayes is the author of When Did You Die? 8 Steps to Stop Dying Every Day and Start Waking Up (HCI Books) and spiritual leader of Unity Campus in St. Petersburg, Florida. She is an internationally acclaimed speaker with a global following and is one of the most respected and authentically inspiring leaders in spiritual enrichment today. Temple Hayes also hosts an extremely popular radio show, The Intentional Spirit on Unity Online Radio. Her new book looks at how most of us die a little each day and defines the pathway out of that downward spiral, toward a vibrant, authentic, healthy and empowered life. For more information, visit: www.templehayes.com
