You have to be calm and easy with puzzles.  There are poltergiests in there, hiding those certain pieces under or upside down.  If you get frustrated, you have to back off, relax, get a cup of tea, putz around with some other task.  When you return–poof!–they flash it right in front of your eyes.  Or searching for something blue, you see that red piece you have been searching for.

The key is to be easy with it.  Ah that I can take that philosophy and use it in my daily life.  So what if a promised appointment is never confirmed?  Those life gnomes are playing games with me and I need to remember the rules of hide and seek–giggle and squeal.  But I’m usually cussing and cranky. 

When working at a puzzle, I don’t take it personally when a piece seems missing.  I know that it is either there, incognito, or it’s missing and I’ll find that out at the end of the game.  No need to fuss or fright about it.

So today I’ll work with the pieces of my life that I have in my hands.  And I open my hands and my heart to the underlying table of the puzzle of my days–the Sweet Scent of Her love that I can breathe through my body if I take that slow moment for a long deep breath.