{"id":10058,"date":"2024-05-30T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10058"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:24","slug":"assembling-the-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10058","title":{"rendered":"ASSEMBLING THE PUZZLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I have been restudying the first chapters of Genesis, I feel like I have found a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The image that came to mind this morning was assembling a puzzle.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First step: Open the box and dump all the pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second step: Flip all the pieces so that you can see the image on each properly. At first glance, each piece is a mix of lines and colors. No individual piece is fully comprehensible by itself &#8211; only when it is connected to others.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third step: Find all the edge pieces. They&#8217;re easy to pick out because they have one straight side (or two if it&#8217;s a corner piece). These get connected to each other to create a frame. Now you know where the boundaries are.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally: The inner pieces can be separated into piles of like colors or textures. This helps in finding the general area of the scene where they will fit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As more and more pieces get locked into their proper places, the pace picks up. The process gets easier. More and more of the scene takes form.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even as I write this out tonight, I realize that this describes my own faith journey overall in recent years. The pace of snapping pieces into place has gotten pretty fun and satisfying.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have been restudying the first chapters of Genesis, I feel like I have found a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the gospel. The image that came to mind this morning was assembling a puzzle.\u00a0 First step: Open the box and dump all the pieces.\u00a0 Second step: Flip all the pieces so that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10059,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058\/revisions\/10059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}