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Puzzles, anyone?

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a friend introduced me to jigsaw puzzles a while back. it's a rather expensive habit cos apart from the costs of the jigsaw puzzle, the frame also cost quite a bit. recently though i've discovered that the ikea frames are cheap and although they don't fit exactly, it stil looks quite good. so i have started again. i just completed one yesterday. 500 pieces. this one took me longer than i expected cos of the very complex blue sky, in jigsaw puzzle terms, the more homogenous the picture is the more difficult the puzzle cos you are just trying to match puzzle shapes. anyhow i finished it. it got me thinking though about how we are like jigsaw puzzles, we can't see the big picture, sometimes when we try to fit the pieces in, we just can't get them to fit and sometimes the pieces that seem to fit so well are actually the wrong ones. it also takes lots of patience to piece the pieces together; but the reward in the end is worth it. i pray that God is fixing a beautiful pi...