When I was a kid one of my favorite activities was to connect dots.  I would take my pencil and go to each number given.  In the end after all the dots were connected there was a picture!  I then could color the picture and had a work of art!

There was a story I read about a little girl in Bible school.  The teacher asked them all to draw angels or perhaps a picture of baby Jesus in the manager.  One little girl was drawing furiously.  The teacher asked her, “Mary what are you drawing?”  She replied…”. I’m drawing a picture of God. “To which the teacher replied……”No one knows what God looks like.”

  Mary told her……..”They will in a minute!”

We too might like a picture of God.  We like visuals.  We see shapes in clouds, and rainbows make us happy. All Moses saw was a burning bush!

We can’t quite connect all the dots in our life.   How is God using this problem for my good?  I can’t see where this is going.  The big picture just isn’t there for me. I wish I had Mary’s faith.  She was able to “see” God.  In her childlike faith she connected the dots! 

But then again………. When I look backward from where I am now, suddenly those dots connect.   I can see what God was doing after all. 

                                    That’s why faith is so important. 

      We often cannot connect the dots from where we stand now

But wait!

                                          God is connecting the dots.