By Samantha Daviss
It’s so true as the saying goes, “we learn something new every single day.” And we truly do, whether it’s through a book, the television, a friend, a parent, work, school, a sign, or an experience, we truly learn something new every day. We just must take the time or have the patience and wear with all to be aware that we are learning.
As parents we feel that we are always the “teachers” or at least it is our responsibility to be the teachers. But sometimes those little people in our lives are our best teachers. Just the other day my youngest son, who by the way is a wizard at anything Legos, big, small, or tiny; came into my room and sat in my chair and said, “You know what Mommy, in a way we are like little pieces of Legos to God and he puts us together the way he wants.”
At that moment I was busy working on some homework of mine, but by the time he finished that statement he had my full attention. It was probably one of the most profound statements I had ever heard anyone say. An adult, my pastor, myself, any one. I was amazed at how his little brain thought and processed something so huge. So I started to talk to him about it, and in an instant he was seven again, running out of the room to go chase his big brother around the house.
But for the next few days that statement really stuck with me, in more ways than one. God really has put us together the way he wants, just like little pieces of Legos. Sure we all make mistakes, but some of us make bigger mistakes or wrong choices more than others.
So why did God put those pieces of the Legos together in that manner? Why did he make one person a murderer? Or one person have cancer? Or one person an adulterer? But on the flip side of that coin why were some people’s pieces of Legos put together so profoundly? Like a genius, like Einstein, and some of us are just mediocre in the intelligence department? Why are some people’s Legos all color-coordinated and stunningly gorgeous, but some other Legos have nicks or scrapes, in which people stare in cruelty?
Yet amazingly so all the Lego pieces fit together perfectly. I think personally, that God gave us our little pile of pieces and we were the ones to put them together the way we chose. If we chose to be good, or evil, or kind, or faithful to our spouse. I truly think in the end God gave us the building blocks in which to grow from, but it is our choice and decision on how to snap those little pieces together for the good of yourself and the good of humanity.
Life happens one day at a time, but we happen one Lego at a time.
