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Life is like a big puzzle. As a Christian, the beginning of your walk with the Lord is much like dumping out a 10,000 piece puzzle onto your table. The pieces are scattered. The picture is broken. The prospect of putting this thing together seems a daunting task. Yet, there's excitement... and there's a very distinct goal:  put the pieces together and make a beautifully whole picture.  Some pieces are upside down. Others are right-side up. They're all probably quite misplaced, but the right pieces are there. A puzzle starts as the exact opposite of "put together." Yet, the Bible gives us a picture of what our lives should look like... and so, we start to look for those puzzle pieces that fit together, working to create in our own lives a picture that looks like the one painted for us in scripture.  Sometimes you find the pieces that fit perfectly together. You search, you find, and you make forward progress. Other times, you simply can't find the right pieces,...