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Puzzling about puzzles
Nick
April 29, 2024
This past weekend I was chatting with Ysanne and Matt from Wolf In The Meadow. I said something along the lines of how we’re building this piece by piece and that we’re trying to find the edge pieces so we can fill in the rest of the picture.
It got me thinking about how often we try to finish the whole picture without first finding the edges or even flipping the pieces? We have an idea about what we want it to look like but just have this jumbled mess of pieces in front of us on the table.
It kind of reminds me of a puzzle I saw a number of years ago, it was just a field of wheat where almost everything looks the same but every piece had their place.
The Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 12 has a great picture about the connectedness of the body, with every piece in its place:
For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
The box picture for ASOM only has vague areas highlighted with words like, Marketing, Fundraising, Budgeting, Production, Planning, Musicians, Venues, and so on. As we go, we’ll find out what pieces make up the sections and how they all connect together, kinda like the body.
So we’re building the puzzle, piece by piece, starting with the edges.
Until next time,
Nick