Of Puzzles & Boundaries

 I enjoy putting puzzles together. They have a way of sucking me in, especially when I should be doing housework. "Just one more piece" somehow becomes 30 minutes. I've done puzzle exchanges with various people for the variety. My aunt exchanged this one with me at Christmas and I was immediately drawn to it. Between Richard & I, we put it together in 5 days this week.   

Now I disciplining myself to not start another one right away -so that I get other things done. 

But there are 7 more tempting my will power... 

I'm currently reading "Good Boundaries and Goodbyes" by Lysa TerKeurst. It's a timely read with the situation our congregation is in. One sentence that really jumped out at me was Whole people gravitate toward whole people. Fractured people tend to attract other fractured people. All I'm gonna say about that is I want to move towards wholeness in areas in which I am fractured. 

God, grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change,

the courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time,

enjoying one moment at a time;

accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;

taking, as Jesus did,

this sinful world as it is,

not as I would have it;

trusting that You will make all things right

if I surrender to Your will;

so that I may be reasonably happy in this life

and supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.