Day #1984

June 7, 2019 

Danita Jones’ article, “Connecting the Dots,” from the June/July Guideposts spoke to me. She wrote about her Mama, who said to her after she lamented over something not being fair, “‘It’s just a dot, Danita.’” When she told her mama she didn’t understand, she wrote that her mama “pulled a sheet of paper out of her desk drawer, a worksheet with numbered dots all over it.” It was a dot-to-dot picture, but Danita couldn’t make sense of it because it just looked like a bunch of dots with no apparent shape. Then her mama explained, “‘That’s how life is,’ she said. ‘God places things in our lives, and sometimes they seem confusing or out of order. Most of the time, we have no idea why things happen the way they do.’ ‘So…we’re the dots?’ ‘No, we’re the pencil,’ my mother said, handing me one. ‘The pencil never knows what the dots make up - it just goes from one dot to the next. But God sees the big picture.’”

I thought this explanation helpful. I believe God allows things in our lives (not necessarily placing them there) that we cannot understand and that seem unfair. Yet, because God has the knowledge of the big picture, there is always something to learn from them or use in the future. And sometimes the dots make a beautiful picture. 

May we all trust the artist, who loves us and is with us, always. 

Blessings.