Have you ever seen those drawing books where you have dots which you have to connect the dots to end up making some sort of image or whatever. Ever given thought to the fact that those kiddy puzzles could ever hold a lesson for you that would come in handy at the most turbulent times of your life?
Let's think about it for a while. If anyone who has solved such a connect-the-dots-to-draw puzzle, they will know what I'm talking about here.
You draw through the dots with speed right? I mean you get to one dot and you quickly find the next one and you connect and so on till you're done and you smile with pride at finishing the kiddy puzzle, congratulations. Now for some adult thoughts about the kiddy dots, and no potshots you hotshots.
I believe that each one of the events we go through in our life can be considered as the dots of life. Who is doing the 'drawing'? God. Just like the real kiddy puzzles, some 'dots' are near to the previous one, some are far.
What do we do when we stop at any one of the dots? Mostly, we whine. 'Why did this have to happen etc etc', stuff like that. We fail to realise that we are just standing at a dot, the next one will come too, we should be positive about it. However, everything comes at its appointed time, be it good or bad. But we rarely show the patience to wait for the 'drawing to be complete'. We just like to be hasty, that's human nature, or maybe its just the Red Bull overload...whatever...
What we fail to see my friends, is that the drawing cannot be complete until all the dots have been drawn through, and it is those dots that make a part of the complete picture.
You will not be able to see when does the next dot come into your life, only God can do that. But even just some pondering, looking back over the dots, will enable you to connect those dots yourself too. It's like this, you stand at dot A, reach dot B, and then you realise that you might not have been at dot B if you hadn't crossed A. And for all we know, dot B could be something extremely good after something extremely bad.
Good times follow the bad ones, relief comes with hardships, circumstances mould you into a better person, the dots will connect, the drawing will be beautiful, and you will know it, and live it.
May God grant you relief from all the worries, hardships, difficulties, stress, depression, and every negative emotion known to mankind. Ameen.
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