With a last name like Reese, I really thought I should have no problem coming up with a super cute and catchy play on words to to use for a blog title. I have a friend who did that with their last name and I just love it! I desperately wanted a fun play on words, but I also needed it to hold a deeper meaning too. I brainstormed changing Pieces to Peace-is . . . in an attempt to capture the deeper meaning I was desiring, and though God's peace is a truth in our lives and a wonderful one at that, I just didn't feel it was the deeper meaning I was being burdened to share. Frustrated by my lack of creativity, I finally succumb to the defeat of having no deeper meaning and just using the obvious Reese's candy idea, titled the blog. I pushed my computer forward a bit, signifying my surrender, and allowed my brain to begin processing which of the other million things on my "To-Do" list I should set out to accomplish next. Should I start working on the paperwork for this, the email for that, the errand to get this, or should I start looking for the packed away something I was needing to find . . . As I sat there, exhausted from losing my battle with creativity, sorting through the list of to-do's in my mind, instead of figuring out what to do next, my thoughts shifted to ponder the realization that so many of my to-do's were intertwined with each other. I needed to find something, so I could use that something to do something else, so we could use that something else to do yet another something, so that we could use that to fill out something else, and on and on. Each one of my to-do's were really just a piece of something larger. Each one left to itself had no great significance and really wouldn't matter if I did it or not, but when put together, each of those little pieces amounted to the possibility of accomplishing something much bigger. It was at that moment that I realized my little candy-associated title was actually going to work after all. I won't be able to take any credit for creativity, but written without my realizing, was the deeper meaning I was seeking to share! --Just like all the individual pieces of my "To-Do" list, our family is made up of many pieces, and each person in our family is made up of pieces. Just as I am in charge of working with the pieces of my "To-Do" List to make sure the larger goal is accomplished, God has put Himself in charge of paying attention to our family and each and every one of our pieces. Left to ourselves, our family and each of us in our family are just pieces. But when we surrender all our pieces to God, and willfully place all our pieces in His hands, He faithfully and lovingly works with each one of those pieces, both great and small, tweaking them, re-shaping and molding them, replacing them and adding to them in order to accomplish an awesome plan. He is using all our pieces to make something beautiful!
This is our family’s story of the beauty God creates when we willfully and intentionally place all our pieces in His hands.
