MR. IRRELEVANT?

Today was the final day of the 2017 NFL Draft.  

7 rounds....253 draft selections.

Although the draft has been around since 1936, in 1976, the last pick in that year's draft was dubbed, "MR. IRRELEVANT."  Since then, that last pick has that distinction....if you can call it that.

I started to think about it...irrelevant...IRRELEVANT!  Is this person truly IRRELEVANT?

NO!  

NO ONE is IRRELEVANT!  

This got me thinking about the jigsaw puzzle.  A friend of mine posted the picture above with this beautifully written narrative, "1500 mixed up beautifully unique pieces.  Such a beautiful picture before they are even put together in their intended places."

This is so true.  We each have that "intended place" that we need to be in.  Sometimes, we don't necessarily like the "place" we are in.  Think of it like this:

Let's say you are putting together a 1500 piece puzzle that is a beautiful picture of a beach, the ocean and beautiful blue sky.  Walking on the beach are two people holding hands. When we dump the pieces on the table to begin to put it together, we are looking at the picture on the box to help us as a guide.  It's tough, because there are many pieces that are just blue for the sky with no real distinction in them.  Same for the ocean and the sand on the beach.  But the people, we know right where they belong.  Let's say that the people represent ONE PIECE of the puzzle.

This is representative of our lives.  The "season" that we are in right now, might have us as part of the sky, ocean or sand.  But we want to be the "people" piece.  We want to stand out on our own.  So we try to take our "piece of sky" and force it where the "people" piece goes. What happens?  A couple of things:

1. We are out of place.  Our "piece" doesn't fit there
2. By taking ourselves out of our "intended place" we have made the picture incomplete

In your life...your place is as unique as the variation of the cuts of a piece from a jigsaw puzzle.  

WHAT you have....ALL you are....the world needs!

So don't force your "piece" in places it's not intended....for now.

YOU.ARE.RELEVANT!