it is what you make of it

When you reframe setbacks as opportunities, you find that you gain much more than you have lost.   Jesus Calling, November 4 Here’s the truth about life: a whole lot of our best plans don’t work out, and many things we counted on . . . fall apart. Many times, there’s not much we can do about it. But you know what? There’s a lot we can do with the pieces left over from the moments when life doesn’t go the way we planned. One time, my son and I took an incomplete LEGO set, and by the time we were done, we created something more meaningful and beautiful than we could’ve imagined when we started.  The missing pieces Of the seventy-five pieces that made up the LEGO City Desert Rally Racer our box only came with seventy-three. At first, we thought it was our fault. In the time it ...