Hello everyone :)

When I was little I loved this one toy. It was a square tray with small tiles within it, I think there were 15 of them. Each one with a number on it… from 1 to 15. They were in four rows, and they could slide up and down, or left to right because one tile was missing. Perhaps you know what toy I mean. We would go on long car rides and it’d keep me entertained for hours.

What you’d do is, you’d scramble the numbers, and then the aim was to organize them again. So you’d move the 3 over to the left to make room for the 8 so the 5 could go next to the 4… and so on. It was so much fun. When they were finally all organized, you’d look at it…. sigh, and scramble them all up again.

See the fun was not to have them organized, the fun was to organize them. That was the engaging part. That was the creative part. And so it is with life.

We think we want everything in place, until we get everything in place, then suddenly we don’t feel so challenged, am I right, or is this just me?

You know, there were times when I thought I’d scramble it so well, I would never be able to get them back in place. But then I would remember; They came from order. No matter how impossible it may seem, they will find their way back into order again.

Be well :)

Maia

PS. No there was no February Newsletter. I just couldn’t get the ten over by the nine. Now that we are finally getting settled into our new home I’m leaving the fourteen and fifteen out of place ‘cause I don’t feel like scrambling them all up and starting over just yet.