Happy October! And happy Scripture, Memory Team Day! 
I’d been thinking about how much I enjoyed working puzzles as a child and decided to order one since the only one in the house is an Alice in Wonderland from my mother’s childhood. I ordered Renoir’s Chrysanthemums – you probably are not surprised I selected a floral. I am having so much fun doing this puzzle! It started out on one table in the living room and even though I measured, the table was too small for the puzzle and all the pieces that *need* to go outside the border while working. I ever-so-carefully moved it to a bigger table I found at a thrift store. Every spare moment I am drawn like a magnet to my puzzle table. The moments usually don’t come till the days work is done – and then I feel like I need one of those helmets that workers wear in a mine that has a headlamp on the front to see better! I have moved the table all over the living room – under the main light in the center after moving the one lamp that was beside the Salesman’s recliner wasn’t enough light, I brought in a pharmacy lamp from my desk that I now move around the table. Still feel like I need a headlamp though. The Salesman has laughed at my set up – except for the time when the table was in the main walkway because I thought the best light was there. I’m sure he’s going to buy me a headlamp. 
Anyway, it would have been wonderful to have it completed so I could share the full picture of the colorful Chrysanthemums with you; but at the time of this writing – turns out my incomplete picture goes hand-in-hand with this months Scripture memory team verse:
2 Corinthians 5:7
“For we live by faith, not by sight.”
As a visual learner, I best understand information by seeing it; but life sometimes feels like this puzzle. You plan and measure and it all looks good; but what you are doing and seeing just isn’t going to work and you have to start over and exercise your faith. You search and search for the right light because you think if you could just see better – an overhead light, a table lamp, a pharmacy lamp, a headlamp – or new glasses – when you need eyes of faith to be focused beyond the here and now to God and His kingdom.
This verse encourages me to trust in God’s way, His Word, & will, even when I can’t fully see, or understand, the whole picture. I need not be puzzled in the unknown or unseen nature of God‘s plan. I choose faith, and not fear, to lead my heart and life.
By faith, I trust that His plans and promises are perfect.