The Pieces Don’t Fit

In one of his plays, Tennessee Williams tells about a mentally ill woman who is sitting at a card table set up in her garden, working a jig-saw puzzle. She is extremely tense. Her hands are shaking. She tries to force the pieces together that don’t fit. Some of the pieces fall off the table. The woman becomes more and more agitated. Finally, she looks up at her daughter and says poignantly, “The pieces don’t fit together! The pieces don’t fit together!” That is the way it is for many people today. The pieces just will not fit together for them–and never will until they discover Faith in the Gracious God who is always working in us and around us to give us life. This God, this Creative Force, this Energy (spelled with a capital “E”), not only is deep within us, but also is pulsating in the world all around us–in other human beings and in what we call “nature.” And if we take…