Did I ever tell you the story about the puzzle? I was in high school. My friend Becchi and I were visiting with a couple who had been very influential in our youth ministry at church. We were sitting at the kitchen table talking, when he pulled out a couple of puzzles. He placed one in front of each of us and told us we had three minutes to finish the puzzle, and we could ask him anything we wanted. The timer started, we both huddled over our respective puzzles, trying so hard to figure it out. The three minutes passed quickly, and I don't think either of us came close to solving the puzzle. We looked up in frustration and sighed. He looked at us with a smirk, and that ever present twinkle in his eye as though he always knew a secret. "Why didn't you ask me how to work it?" "I made the puzzle. I told you that you could ask me anything. Why didn't you ask me how to work it?" It was a powerful lesson in prayer. I hadn't thought about that day in many years before coming to my current job. I was sitting before the Lord one afternoon, completely frustrated and overwhelmed by the task before me. I cried out to him, whining really, "Lord, it's like a giant puzzle, and I don't know how the pieces fit!" In a flash, I was taken back to that day, sitting at that kitchen table, learning that God made the puzzle of life and that we are not just welcome, but invited, to ask Him for the solution.
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