Life is like a Jigsaw puzzle....

There was a time in my life where I really enjoyed doing jigsaw puzzles. It was something I shared and enjoyed doing with my mother.
She could sit for hours quietly picking up one piece after another fitting them together in what seemed effortless.
Today, it dawned on me that life is like a jigsaw puzzle.
Sometimes the jumble of pieces just seem like a heap of random disassociated  and unfamiliar parts.
Sometimes, life feels like all of those pieces are facedown!
And without the box cover with the picture, we have no idea what it is we are trying to put together.
Even when the pieces ar face down, we can pick out the c4 corners and then start separating the edges.Eventually even upside down, we can start piecing the puzzle together. Facedown, the puzzle is much more challenging.If we work long enough and hard enough we can put all of the pieces together.Imagine the surprise when we finally can turn the puzzle over and see what we created!
It is much easier when we can use the picture of what we are trying to piece together as a reference point.
When the pieces are face up and we can use the colors along with the shapes, the process is much simpler and certainly much less frustrating.
For a long time, I felt as if my life was that jigsaw puzzle turned face down on the table. I felt like I would never be able to recreate the picture on the box.
Little by little, I have managed to gather up enough of the edge pieces to create the frame for the picture.
It has taken a long time however, when I look at the pile of cardboard tidbits,it has dwindled to a few random pieces that just need to be pieced together. 
Did I happen to mention that the table I was working on has a glass top?
By placing a mirror under the table I can actually see the picture I am rebuilding!
It may not be the easiest or the simplest route , but sure enough, it is coming together. That is until the Universe decides wouldn't it be fun to open another puzzle and dump the pieces on top of the pile!