I was reading some potential short
stories for
My
Daily Insights and one of my authors, Michael T. Smith,
sent me one about a game of Scrabble with his wife Ginny. You
will see the entire story later this year on MDI but today I
wanted to share part of it with you.
Life is full of tiles. They’re
scattered in front of us, but they’re upside down.
We don’t know what they are
until they’re picked up. We can’t handle too many at one time.
We’re only allowed to choose seven.
Imagine having seven tiles of
life in front of you. You stare at them and think to yourself,
“Life starts here.” They’re lined up, but they make no sense.
You move them around, trying to arrange them into something
logical, but you struggle. The first move has to be right.
The letters come together into
a word, but it’s a small one. Will you use it or keep struggling
and make a bigger word? This is the beauty of the game - you get
to replace the tiles you use. Are you going to make small moves,
only to pick up a couple of tiles? Remember, the more you use,
the more you can pick up - more opportunities.
Time goes by. The last tile is
placed on the board. The game is over, but the words you created
live on. They are the children fostered, decisions made, friends
found, work done, and the life lived. We start with the same
number of tiles. How we use them is up to us.
My thought to you…how are
you using your tiles? |
