It's Monday again here on Things Unseen.

I'm sure you've seen those puzzle books that often seem to be printed on the cheapest

quality paper.

Sometimes you'll see children or perhaps even older adults with them on usually

long haul flights or long train journeys. There's sometimes a join the dots puzzle, and

you try and guess the person or object as you join up the dots that seem to be randomly

placed there on the page. I sometimes think life's like that, isn't it?

Full of apparently isolated dots.

But if you're a Christian, you know they're not accidental or random.

And you know that the dots will eventually all make sense, even if it's not clear what

that final picture is going

to be, but you begin to trace the line from one dot to another.

In some ways, passages of Scripture can be like those dots.

For one way we sometimes are helped to catch a glimpse of God's plan and pattern in our

lives is to think of the specific

verses or passages in Scripture that have made a special impression on us, to see them as

divinely placed dots, if you will, and to watch them being joined up to give shape to your

life. I know that for myself, looking back, I think I can see how God has, if you will, joined

up the dots to give my own life shape.

So I thought this week I'd reflect on some of those passages, not because there's anything

special about my own experience, but partly because

I'm thinking of great Bible passages, and also because I think this may be a way of encouraging

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