This will be the final entry in the Lego series.  We’ve looked at Legos as they relate to details/the big picture, evidence and trust, and mistakes being the beginning of something.  This week is about Lego bricks and building and rebuilding ourselves.

The picture to the right is a bin filled with Legos.  They come in all different sizes and shapes.  Some are short.  Some are long.  Some are wheels.  Some are oddly shaped.  Some are bricks.  Some are characters.  Eventually, they are all brought together to build something.  Maybe you build a robot or a car or a house or something else entirely.  The beauty in all of this is that we can use those same blocks to build and rebuild over and over again, each time building something new and unique.  You can take those exact same blocks and build masterpieces, only limited by your imagination.

What does this have to do with anything?  What if I told you that your life is just a bunch of Lego bricks.  All of the elements of who you are and all of the things you ever experienced are merely Lego bricks.  Some are beautiful.  Some are sad.  Some are joyous.  Some are painful.  Some are quirky and unexpected.  Some are calming.  All of these “bricks” live inside of you.  The beauty is that you have the ability to build and rebuild yourself over and over again.  This is the beauty of being human.  We’re not stagnant.  We are always building.  We always have the ability to rebuild ourselves and help rebuild each other.  We can create glorious messy human masterpieces, only limited by our own imaginations.  If that’s not a miracle, I don’t know what is.

The challenge: What will you build with the Lego bricks of your life?

Have a jolly good day,

Andrew Embry