Mosaics - Making the Pieces Fit

Often our lives feel like a disjointed collection of drab glass stone and ceramic pieces. We wonder if there's any purpose or plan to our lives. Has the artisan stopped working on our project and tossed us onto the shelf to collect dust? We think we've been thrown into the landfill as rubble. Sometimes our introspection thickens and we find ourselves in depression or a dark night of the soul. There's no gold or color any more just a monochrome palette of black white and gray. We sense great loss and despair of ever regaining that which has been lost. Miraculously it's in the midst of such times we often find God doing amazing things in our lives. If we are yielded to Him looking for His ways in us we discover He's building all sorts of things into our lives; He is creating a wondrous mosaic from the tesserae of our experiences. These essays represent some of the tesserae being assembled into my life image by the Master Artisan who makes no mistakes.