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Looking back, the pieces finally started clicking together when our son got his
first LEGO® building set – Star Wars The Clone Wars. Of course, at the time, I had no idea...
The sealed cardboard box perfectly epitomized my approach to just
about anything creative - cooking and gardening, parenting and disciple-making.
On the outside, there was a high-definition picture – in
fact, several pictures - of what I
should expect the end result to look like. Just seeing them made my fingers itch to get
this building business under way.
Look at those slick lines! Check out these cool features!
The spattering of few odd-looking characters made the
process all the more interesting.
Inside, I could find a booklet with clear, step by step,
easy to follow instructions and several bags of well-organized pieces. Everything
I need to build the pictured model was in that one box.
My job was to open the box, get my pieces together, read the
manual, follow the instructions, and in no time, without fail - voila, there
comes a model disciple!
It turns out, real life rarely works quite that way.
Except, perhaps, for those odd-looking characters.
Sure, there is the instruction manual.
Except, the instructions are not as simple, easy to
understand and follow.
And sure, there are the building blocks.
But, not all of them are ‘fresh-out-of-the-box’ nice and
shiny. In fact, hardly any of them are! Most pieces in my pile are scuffed up and
old, chipped and even broken. They all seem to have a mind of their own, refusing
to stay put together the way I want them. They go off on their own in a million
directions, lurking under the desk or embedded in the carpet, waiting for my unsuspecting
bare feet to find them.
Ouch!
And so my nice little set gets morphed into a big messy pile
in the middle of the bedroom, the content of dozens of different boxes all hopelessly
mixed together.
I can’t make any sense of that mess!
There are days when I scratch my head for I am not sure if I
am supposed to build an Imperial Starfighter or the Little House on the Prairie.
Or, perhaps, I should just bag the whole thing and go back
to Duplos®!
Seated next to the big messy pile, nursing a massive
headache, I do know one thing for sure.
I can’t do this on my own. I desperately need help.
I must
call on the Master Builder!

He always knows exactly where to start. He picks up a piece.
He holds it up so I can see it clearly, and says,
This... this piece is the key.
It’s the Cornerstone. Whenever you build, whatever you build, make sure you
always start with the Cornerstone.
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