Puzzles to pass the time.

In the waiting room at the clinic where Mom receives her IV antibiotics, people pass the time of day by putting together a puzzle. We arrive before many patients so we get to have our turn at the table. I love puzzles. I love how the pieces come together to make a beautiful picture.

Right now, we (all of the cancer patients, antibiotic patients, infectious disease patients, and friends and family of the patients etc.) are putting together “Thomas Kinkaid’s Flags Over the Capital” puzzle.

I cannot wait until it is finished. Every day someone has added a few more pieces waiting the day when it is completely finished.

As I think about all those pieces, I marvel at the many hands that have touched them—those that will be passing on to the next life, those that are fighting infections, those that are overcoming a major trial in their life where they have been given hope and all of those that have loved ones going through these moments in their lives. We are all coming together and working hard to create a beautiful masterpiece. Isn’t that what this life is all about—working together to achieve that beautiful place where we can live for eternity.

~Michelle