Arranging Pieces

Just doodle dee doing for some fun using
colored pencils and ink.  It's nothing fancy but
doodling sure produces some good therapy!
Don't you agree?

What about your wishes?  Are they
just something you dream about
or are you now,
living and working towards them
to make them come true?

For me, I have to be
accountable and check in with
myself
and the goals I've set
every now and then, or
I can get stuck in a rut and
lay dormant instead of continuing to bloom.
Do you have to do that with yourself?

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way”  ……Virginia Wooolf

♥

 Sometimes,

our days can throw curve balls at us

and totally throw us off and

that is when we need to relax

through it and just 

arrange whatever pieces come our way.

I've had to learn

and am still learning how

to be more flexible. 

Especially when it comes to being more flexible 

with myself!

Being a firstborn, I have

a tendency, like most firstborns do, 

to be a little too hard on myself

because of wanting  or thinking I must

be perfect at what I do and

even sometimes with who I am.

That is just too much pressure to put on yourself!

Don't you find it so refreshing,

knowing you have the ability to arrange or

rearrange any unexpected pieces

that come your way?

And sometimes those unexpected pieces

turn out to be great blessings in disguise.

I LOVE it when that happens!

 

“ Because  you  are  my help,
I sing in the shadow of your wings.”

  Psalm 63:7

Talk about a huge piece thrown at you

that rearranges life.

I hope you won't mind if I share a personal story

of how my grandparents 

arranged the pieces that came their way.

My grandparents raised me and my siblings.

They took us into their home to raise when I was

11 years old and my 3 siblings were 

even younger than me.

I will forever be grateful

to them for their sacrifice and great love.

After my grandfather died at age 72,

when I was a young adult,

I remember telling my grandmother

that I was sorry that they 

gave up getting together with their friends

because of the time it took to raise us when they

were in their 50's and 60's.

I was sad now that

grandpa was gone and grandma

didn't have

close girlfriends anymore.

I knew raising us was a piece given to them

that they were not expecting during that

middle age time in their lives.

You know what she said to me?  I will never forget

her gracious and loving words.

She said, "Oh honey, don't you think that way at all."

"You kids added so much joy to our lives."

Before you lived with us, we worried all of the time

about you and if you were okay, but when you came to

live with us, we didn't worry anymore!"

My grandparents lived out 

"arranging the pieces that come your way."

And the blessings from it

changed my life.

Here is a photo my brother just recently found of my 

grandfather and my two daughters and my niece.

I'm not kidding when I say,

"He was the most fun grandpa and great -grandpa ever!"

♥

You know what?  

I bet we could exchange

pieces and make them work if

 the pieces that come your way this week

do not fit.

Let me know if this happens

and we will have a pieces party!!!!   

PARTIES

ALWAYS MAKE THINGS MORE FUN

♥