Thursday's Puzzle Piece

Today is Easter Sunday, and I discovered why I have a missing puzzle piece among my treasures (see thursday's post).

One of the perks of having raised your family is that at 8:30 on Easter morn, you can be calmly sitting in church, even if the afternoon will be busy with family. Calm, but not expectant, was I. Perhaps, I wasn't prepared for something new. After all with 57 years of the spirit moving you, are there any Easter surprises left?

So when our pastor began by telling us that on Thursday he was puzzling over what he would speak on...puzzle..thursday...he had my attention. He had only three days to come up with something. But he reasoned, look what God had done in three days. So he talked to God, as pastors do, and had a lot to say by Easter.

His missing puzzle piece was 'look at the possibilities now that the tomb is empty'. Oh...possibilities...another one of my words. Possibilities. A really exciting word. Not a dead end word. Life can have new beginnings over and over.

Possibilities....puzzles...plans....hope....new beginnings. I just imagine those words floating out there on Thursday. Just floating by, available for someone to grap and take to heart. Now I wonder what I can do in three days....with a little help, and another look through my treasures.