Puzzling (Part 4)

​A field of mixed flowers. The beach with toys and crabs. A crowd of people. Sometimes the puzzle pieces we get stuck with are MONTONOUS. They aren't hard or easy. They are just a lot of the same pieces, over and over again.
Life sometimes seems like that. Our pieces are MONTONOUS. The kids are sick again. The car broke down again. There isn't enough money for vacation again. At least hard pieces drive us to God in our distress. At least easy pieces are enjoyable. But when "every" life piece God gives us is the same, it's easy to grow bored and lose our focus on Christ. It is in the mundane that we are called to look up -- out of the diapers and the paperwork and the vacuuming -- and fix our gaze on our Savior. He knew and did the need-to-do parts of life. And He realized that those boring parts of life prepare us for the hard and the easy parts. In the mundane we have the opportunity to seek Him, grow in faithfulness, and live as the new creatures He has made us to be.

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